News

  1. Animals

    This spider uses trapped fireflies to lure in more prey

    Male fireflies trapped in the spider’s web flash femalelike lights, possibly luring in other flying males and allowing the arachnid to stock up on food.

    By Erin Garcia de Jesús
  2. Chemistry

    Old books can have unsafe levels of chromium, but readers’ risk is low

    An analysis of a university collection found that the vibrant pigments coating some Victorian-era tomes exceed exposure limits for the heavy metal.

    By Skyler Ware
  3. Paleontology

    This spiky fossil shows what early mollusks looked like

    The fossil, plus 17 others from more than 500 million years ago, reveal that early mollusks were slug-like creatures with prickly armor.