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

Deep in the forests of Borneo lives one of the most extraordinary insects ever discovered: the exploding ant. When its colony comes under attack, this tiny defender does something almost unbelievable.

A spider living in the rainforests of Queensland, Australia, builds a snare trap reminiscent of a Roman-era ballista weapon that it uses to catapult green tree ants into a web 30 centimetres above ...

In the Arizona desert, scientists have uncovered a bizarre and almost unbelievable partnership between ants: tiny cone ants acting as “cleaners” for much larger harvester ants. Instead of attacking, ...

Explosions are messy at the best of times, but when the thing exploding is an animal, or part of an animal, it rarely ends ...

After one of the largest one-day declines on record Monday, South Korea’s highflying stock market recouped almost all of those losses Tuesday. These wild market swings, -8.3% and +8.18%, are not quite ...

Citizen scientists using the Kilonova Seekers platform spotted a stellar flash 2,500 times brighter than before, allowing astronomers to identify the exploding cataclysmic variable GOTO0650 within ...

Bombshell video shows flashes from an old Southern California Edison transmission line at the origin of the deadly Eaton Fire, providing the clearest look yet at what may have happened in the moments ...

As 'Disclosure Day' hits theaters, The Hollywood Reporter takes a look at the film director's entire oeuvre, featuring aliens (lots of them!), Indiana Jones (lots of him!) and wars (lots of — well, ...

Whenever Riot adds another map to the game, there comes a phase where everybody is stumbling through unknown hallways, getting killed by angles they didn’t even think possible, and accusing their ...

Jessica Safavimehr is a writer, editor, and storyteller. Her career spans national media brands, including FANGORIA, House Beautiful, The Knot, Men’s Health, and Esquire, where she has led editorial ...