Many lovers of spiders profess a lifelong fascination with all things creepy crawly. Heather Bruen's affinity for spiders was borne out of necessity. Tolerance turned to acceptance, and "accidentally ...

Even if you’re scared of spiders, you may find the little jumping spider cute. With its oversized eyes and inquisitive nature, it’s hard not to be fascinated by these tiny spiders. Jumping spiders are ...

Many lovers of spiders profess a lifelong fascination with all things creepy crawly. Heather Bruen’s affinity for spiders was borne out of necessity. Tolerance turned to acceptance, and “accidentally ...

video: Jumping spiders are highly visual animals. The use vision in courtship and to catch food. In this video, Gil Menda in Ron Hoy's lab at Cornell University discuss a technique to record from the ...

Jumping spiders are pretty incredible creatures. A typical jumping spider is only about half an inch long, yet they can jump around half a foot or more in distance, several times the length of their ...

For the better part of the summer, Erin Brandt, a graduate student in environmental science at UC Berkeley, has been holding speed-dating sessions in the lab — for spiders. Two by two, Brandt studies ...

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 ...