Tiny tropical spiders in the Philippines and the Peruvian Amazon build giant, arachnid-like decoys in their webs to scare off predators, new research shows.
The outsize fake spiders are made of silk; plant debris; and dead, disembodied prey. Some…

Tiny tropical spiders in the Philippines and the Peruvian Amazon build giant, arachnid-like decoys in their webs to scare off predators, new research shows.
The outsize fake spiders are made of silk; plant debris; and dead, disembodied prey. Some…


Microsoft issued security updates to fix over 60 CVEs in the November Patch Tuesday yesterday, including one being actively exploited in the wild.
No public proof-of-concept has been released for CVE-2025-62215, although it is being used by…

The monthlong federal shutdown is over, but physician practices are not out of the woods yet. A bipartisan spending deal restores government funding through January 30, 2026, easing…

Editor’s note: this article includes questions and answers from conversation and email communication.
From a young age, Antia Veal had a passion for science, one encouraged by her family, including the odd mishaps with experiments in the garage….

A first-of-its-kind UK study reveals that while teachers feel more confident tackling vaping in the classroom, widespread confusion about how harmful vaping really is shows schools still need clearer, evidence-based messages for…

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Travelling up from Mars’s equator towards its north pole, we find Coloe Fossae: a set of intriguing scratches within a region marked by deep…

A NEW analysis of U.S. population data suggests that where fat is stored in the body, not just how much, can significantly affect the risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D). Researchers found that higher lower-body fat, particularly in the…

The Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has today announced that Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, will succeed Jerome H Powell, Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as Chair of the Global Economy Meeting (GEM) and Economic Consultative Committee (ECC) from May 2026. The GEM and the ECC are among the principal meetings held at the BIS every two months.