Barack Obama is back on the hardwood, and this time it is on a court built to serve the next generation. I had one rule this week: no one plays on Home Court until some old friends and I get some ...

The ballista spider builds sophisticated spring-loaded snares to catapult its prey. Newly discovered, the ballista spider ...

In the late ’80s and early ’90s, Todd McFarlane’s run on Amazing Spider-Man and the subsequent adjective-less Spider-Man made him the definitive artist for a generation of Spidey fans. Unsurprisingly, ...

Ajay Narendra, Pranav Joshi, Daniele Liprandi, Gregory J Anderson, Jonas Wolff, CC BY There’s more than one way a spider can spin its web. Some construct large vertical orb webs, while others build ...

Zendaya’s spidey senses are tingling. The actress, 29, is fresh off of her “The Drama” promo, where she and stylist Law Roach stuck to a wedding-themed rhyme: something old, something new, something ...

Scientists have discovered a “ballista spider” that builds a spring-powered silk trap designed specifically to catch aggressive green tree ants. The ant unknowingly triggers the mechanism itself, ...

When most silk-spinning spiders hunt, they build a web and wait for prey to blunder into it. But a newly discovered species from Australia instead uses its silk to craft a spring-loaded, cone-shaped ...

A newly discovered spider uses an ingenious method to launch its prey into the air, named after an ancient Roman weapon. The ballista spider was discovered in the rainforests of Far North Queensland.

Scientists have cracked a key mystery behind spider silk’s legendary strength and flexibility. They discovered that tiny molecular interactions act like natural glue, holding silk proteins together as ...

The spider has been nicknamed the "ballista" for the speed and force with which it flings prey into its web A new species of spider which weaves a catapult-like silk trap to snare a single type of ant ...

MINISO has rolled out a new Disney and Pixar's Toy Story 5-inspired collection globally, marking the first collaboration between its proprietary character YOYO and a Disney or Pixar franchise.

A newly discovered spider in Australia builds a snare trap designed to catch a single species of ant, which launches the prey into its web with a g-force that would kill a human. Researchers have ...