Time now for our science news roundup from Short Wave. That's NPR's science podcast. Reporting this week, we have Rachel Carlson. Hey there. RACHEL CARLSON, BYLINE: Hey, Mary Louise. KELLY: Hey. And ...

A fungus that turns spiders into zombies sounds like something straight out of a horror movie. Both arachnophobes and people ...

Tropical orb-weaving spiders craft giant spider-like puppets in their webs. Scientists say the decoys may deter predators, ...

Using microscopy and 3D imaging, they were able to examine the fossils’ minute details. It revealed they had spinnerets and ...

Ever wondered why dead spiders curl up? It's not a final pose but a fascinating consequence of their unique hydraulic system.

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

A Costa Rican pirate spider lives up to the family name: It tricks closely related orb weaver spiders into “walking the plank,” right to their doom. Like any respectable pirate, pirate spiders have an ...

Jumping spiders are an obsession for me. But it wasn’t always so. I also learned that jumping spiders may be in decline. In tropical forests, finding them in a matter of minutes used to be easy, says ...

The Short Wave team talks about spider origins, why the odds of having a girl or a boy aren't 50-50, and what the Orion constellation reveals about the life cycles of stars. Time now for our science ...