Jumping spiders have tiny and relatively simple brains, but scientists are discovering they are among the smartest ...

Spiders have brains, but not in the same sense that people do. A spider’s organs are located in its cephalothorax, where its head and thorax join. The brain isn’t a squishy, pink glob like ours, but ...

In Adrian Tchaikovsky’s 2015 science fiction novel Children of Time, a planet-wide evolutionary biology experiment goes wrong. Well, wrong from a human perspective. Instead of creating intelligent ...

Nicolas Cage starring as Ben Reilly in the 2026 streaming calendar release Spider-Noir already feels like one of those ...

“Webs are like instruments that spiders carefully ‘tune’ according to their experiences.” —David Robson A recent essay in New Scientist by David Robson called, "Spiders think with their webs, ...