Tag: Paul Shamble

  • Nation & World

    To sleep, perchance they dream?

    New Harvard study documents REM in spiders.

    5 minutes
    Spider dreaming.
  • Nation & World

    Living proof

    A study by Harvard researchers demonstrates that jumping spiders can distinguish living from nonliving objects based on their movement.

    3 minutes
    Jumping spider.
  • Nation & World

    Making eight legs look like six

    Using high-speed cameras, Harvard researchers have shown that ant-mimicking jumping spiders don’t walk on six legs in an attempt to appear more ant-like, but instead walk with all eight and take tiny, 100-millisecond pauses to lift their front legs to make them resemble ant antennae.

    5 minutes