The world’s biggest spider web can span an entire river The Darwin’s bark spider is small and inconspicuous, but it spins a web 25m across using one of the toughest …
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Wildlife TV shows don’t help conservation, says Autumnwatch presenter Martin Hughes-Games, of the BBC’s Spring, Autumn and Winterwatch, says series presents ‘a utopian world that bears no resemblance to the …
The search for Britain’s only native species of cicada By Chris Baraniuk Technology repórter This year, late in the summer, University of Oxford computer scientist Alex Rogers got an alert …
Zhang Science The ‘Gene Drive’ That Builds a Malaria-Proof Mosquito Anopheles stephensi Mosquito (female). David Scharf/Corbis On Monday, scientists announced they could cheat the laws of …