Recent discoveries of new creatures have expanded our understanding of global biodiversity. From the record-breaking Hercules spider found in Australian grasslands, to the peculiarly adorned Garvale ...
Jumping robot spiders and swarms of robotic bees sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but researchers at The University of Manchester are already working on such projects and aiming to lead the ...
Kim the regal jumping spider has been trained to jump on demand Scientists have trained a spider to jump on demand. The diminutive arachnid, which they nicknamed Kim, can leap six times her body ...
The eyes are windows into the mind, and this research into what jumping spiders look at and why required a clever device that performs eye tracking, but for jumping spiders. The eyesight of these ...
Jumping spiders may enter a REM sleep-like state similar to humans, a new study suggests, prompting experts to theorize what they can experience in such a paralyzed state. In the study published ...
It's a question that keeps some scientists awake at night: Do spiders sleep? Daniela Roessler and her colleagues trained cameras on baby jumping spiders at night to find out. The footage showed ...