The ballista spider builds sophisticated spring-loaded snares to catapult its prey. Newly discovered, the ballista spider ...

Named for an ancient Roman crossbow-like weapon, the newly found “ballista” spider uses a springy snare to catch prey.

A newly discovered spider in Queensland builds a four-hour silk catapult that uses aggressive ants to trigger their own ...

A newly-discovered spider uses a unique, "spring-loaded" web trap to snatch its prey from a safe distance!

A newly discovered spider from Australia uses its silk to craft a spring-loaded, cone-shaped death trap that catapults its ...

Predator-prey interactions have created some of the coolest strategies in the animal world. From mesmerizing cuttlefish, to ...

New research seems to bust a common hypothesis for how a Venus flytrap's trap begins to close, while supporting another.

A man has been prosecuted after a cat lost a leg when it was caught in a spring-loaded trap he had set. Mark Hewitson, 58, admitted at Preston Crown Court that he had caused unnecessary suffering to a ...

Living cells cool much slower than our current understanding of heat conduction can explain, according to new research from the University of Tokyo. Researchers have used two techniques—high-speed ...

There’s no reason to expect the stock market to struggle this summer. If you think the U.S. stock market’s recent rally “borrowed” some of the gains that otherwise would have been produced this summer ...

China’s leader raised the ancient Greek historian Thucydides when he met the US president in Beijing A messy war in the Middle East. Tensions in Taiwan. When the leaders of the world’s two superpowers ...