Season: These spiders are usually seen in the autumn months when males leave their webs in search of females. They frequently enter homes through open windows, chimneys or gaps beneath doors. A large ...

One surprising discovery comes from an unlikely place: the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The fungi found growing on the destroyed reactor may hold the key to future space missions and ...

The first reporter on the scene of the Chernobyl accident in late April 1986 was Vladimir Gubaryev, science editor of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper in the Soviet Union. An engineer by training ...

Black widows are notorious spiders identified by the colored, hourglass-shaped mark on their abdomens. Several species answer to the name, and they are found in temperate regions around the world.

It is usually found around the outside of houses and gardens, and is particularly common around windows. Because of their superficial resemblance to false widow spiders (Steatoda sp.) people often ...

New research shows that some spiders living in cities somehow weave soundproofing designs into the fabric of their webs to manage unwanted noise, which can make it difficult for them to find prey ...