I’m obsessed with jumping spiders. But it wasn’t always so. I also learned that jumping spiders may be in decline. In tropical forests, it used to be easy to find them in a matter of minutes, says ...

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. I’m obsessed with jumping spiders. But it wasn’t always so. While never a spider hater or arachnophobe, I was pretty ambivalent about them ...

Counting nose hairs in cadavers, repurposing dead spiders and explaining why scientists lick rocks, are among the winning achievements in this year’s Ig Nobels, the prize for humorous scientific feats ...

Jumping spiders are an obsession for me. But it wasn’t always so. I also learned that jumping spiders may be in decline. In tropical forests, finding them in a matter of minutes used to be easy, says ...