Jumping robot spiders and swarms of robotic bees sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but researchers at The University of Manchester are already working on such projects and aiming to lead the ...
Kim the regal jumping spider has been trained to jump on demand Scientists have trained a spider to jump on demand. The diminutive arachnid, which they nicknamed Kim, can leap six times her body ...
It's a question that keeps some scientists awake at night: Do spiders sleep? Daniela Roessler and her colleagues trained cameras on baby jumping spiders at night to find out. The footage showed ...
How jumping spiders reveal an entire secret world of colors. Tech trick: How to tell who’s calling when you don’t recognize the phone number Scientists discover a ‘third state’ between ...
Recent discoveries of new creatures have expanded our understanding of global biodiversity. From the record-breaking Hercules spider found in Australian grasslands, to the peculiarly adorned Garvale ...
But some spiders don't have to spin webs. This spider can jump, and so it is called a jumping spider. Some jumping spiders are really colourful. Jumping spiders have amazing eyes which help them ...
The eyes are windows into the mind, and this research into what jumping spiders look at and why required a clever device that performs eye tracking, but for jumping spiders. The eyesight of these ...