Mariella is an assistant editor at The Scientist. She has a background in neuroscience, and her work has appeared in Drug Discovery News and Massive Science.

His passion is music and he gets a chance to hit the big time. An old friend Jack Spider recently escaped from prison, driven by greed, drags our hero back to a life he thought he had left behind.

These spiders are unwitting helpers in a plan to set a trap for their own kind. The key to that trap: an irresistible spiderweb perfume. To try to control unwanted redback spiders, a team of ...

The trapdoor spider is one of the sneakiest hunters in the arachnid world. These clever spiders are named for their unique hunting strategy: They build burrows with hinged "doors" made of soil and ...

Funny thing about Venus flytraps: They don't usually trap flies. In fact, winged insects only make up 5% of their diet. Sorenson: We really ought to be calling it the Carolina spider trap.

The Spiders, carrying a five-game losing streak rooted in scoring problems, tried something new at George Washington Wednesday night. They turned up the tempo, hoisted 19 3-pointers in the first half, ...

The trapdoor spider is one of the sneakiest hunters in the arachnid world. These clever spiders are named for their unique hunting strategy: They build burrows with hinged "doors" made of soil and ...

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) has spotted six galaxies trapped in a web around a supermassive black hole that’s just under one billion light-years away ...