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As a recovered arachnophobe, I am very familiar with many of the ridiculous spider myths. Spider myths can stem from their ...

Half a billion years ago, a strange sea-dwelling creature called Mollisonia symmetrica may have paved the way for modern ...

From a distance, the beam appears no different from an ordinary piece of timber. But stepping closer, its surface reveals ...

Be a Neighbourhood Naturalist, co-authored by Labonie Roy, Vena Kapoor, and Suhel Quader, provides children with tools to ...

The flight from San Jose takes just under two hours, our twin-engine plane gliding low over jungled hills, white beaches and blue bays before bumping down on the dusty airstrip in Puerto Jiménez, a ...

From a hummingbird in flight to up-close encounters with parasites and their hosts, these images will spark the curiosity ...

Anthropologie just dropped a hauntingly chic collection, including candles, pasta bowls, glassware, and more Halloween decor.

Today, after a post-9/11 era defined by global counterterrorism and asymmetric warfare, the U.S. is preparing for potential near-peer conflicts amid an era of great power competition that is ...

One of the things I was really excited about when we moved to the suburbs was having a shed. I imagined something pretty with flower-filled window boxes, organized shelves of potting tools, and rakes ...

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