A Natural History of the World's Spiders," author Ximena Nelson examines three species of spider with unusual diets — plants, ...

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No one knows for sure when steel was invented, but some of the earliest examples crop up in the first millennium B.C. in Central and South Asia.

A month-long study of a man's brain revealed that its volume consistently shrunk over the course of each day and then reset ...

Climate change will fundamentally challenge the world's urban centers. Three cities — San Diego, Milan and Jakarta — offer ...

New research suggests that black holes may actually be "frozen stars," bizarre quantum objects that lack a singularity and an ...

Every winter, when sunlight hits at the right angle, visitors to Virginia's First Landing State Park are treated to a ...

Indian authorities believe wolves have killed 10 people in the Bahraich region of Uttar Pradesh in recent months, as fear and ...

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The person dubbed "the prophet of the Anthropocene" talks to Live Science about how they got this title, what the Anthropocene means, and why we need to stop trying to define when it started and ...

Painting city roofs white could lower the temperature in London dramatically on the hottest days, new research suggests.

Researchers have identified 12 ancestral plant species from an early Eocene fossil assemblage in Tasmania that once formed part of a giant, circumpolar forest.