Spiders are famous aesthetes. Many craft radially symmetric webs, first extruding long silken spokes and then spinning ...

Q: As I was bringing in one of my houseplants for the winter, I noticed that it has spider mites. I put it in a room by ...

These playful Halloween spiderweb sugar cookies are fun to make and eat. Buttery batter, cocoa-laced icing, and an intricate ...

Joros don’t typically pose serious threats to humans. But their autumnal abundance does appear to be the source of ...

Cut a hole out of the middle of a paper plate, stick orange and yellow tissue squares to it, use the discarded middle of the ...

WITH Halloween nearly upon us, many households will be carving pumpkins to celebrate. And if you’ve ever been dismayed to ...

The actress, best known for her campy alter ego Elvira, Mistress of the Dark has a chocolate and pretzel macabre masterpiece ...

Some no-cost Halloween decor you can make include ghost garlands, bat lamp silhouettes, potion bottles, bleeding candles, or ...

That was the work of Katherine Janus Kahn, who died Oct. 6 at age 83. Janus Kahn, a fine artist also noted for her works on ...

ContentsHagfish slimeSpider’s web fibresBlackest blackThe xenobots are comingSpiders, hagfish, semi-alive robots, and the ...

From blood-squirting lizard eyes to zombie cockroaches, the natural world is ready for a truly terrifying Halloween.

For a recent paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers investigated the odd physics of a ...