A growing body of research suggests that animals—from frogs to crows—can perform primitive math through a system called the ...

How did Ukraine strike deep into Russia with drones, and no pilots crossing the border? Scripps News’ Jason Bellini investigates Operation Spider Web and the future of autonomous drone warfare.

While you might think that we've learned all we need to from feeding spiders illegal drugs, people working at NASA in the ...

Imagine, if you will, you are a fly. Out for a stroll when lo! A strong, sticky substance has you ensnared: a spider’s web, built by the eight-legged giant on its way to kill you. You ready yourself ...

The season 5 premiere, “Alien Golden Orb, Yeti Caught on Tape, Las Vegas Close Encounter,” the show investigates a potentially undiscovered oceanic creature, a possible Yeti caught on camera ...

The number of times I have walked into a spider web is pretty comical. At first, I saw them as a nuisance during my forest adventures, but upon a closer look with my macro lens, I began to notice ...

The cephalothorax combines the head and thorax into one body segment. Compared to the cephalothorax, the abdomen is usually the larger part of a spider’s body. The abdomen contains much of a spider’s ...

Silk has independently evolved multiple times among arthropods, but only spiders and spider mites use silk throughout all stages and aspects of their lives (Craig, 1997; Blackledge et al., 2011; Saito ...

Under the operation, code-named Spider’s Web, Ukraine smuggled drones into Russian territory undetected and hired unwitting drivers to transport them in modified containers to locations near ...

Ukraine’s Operation Spider Web has revealed a stark new reality: drones costing as little as $1,000 can destroy aircraft worth $100 million or more. This wildly asymmetric cost ratio underscores ...

Russia launched a fierce missile and drone attack on Kyiv early June 6, striking multiple locations and killing at least four people, with the toll expected to rise. The strikes caused powerful ...

Targeting airfields Russia's strategic air forces have played an important role in the missile attacks pounding Ukraine from the very first day of the war. As a result, airfields emerged early on ...