Tag: Spiders

  • Nation & World

    Spiders to the rescue

    During an instructive session at the Harvard Ed Portal, elementary school students learned the benefits of helpful spiders.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The tangled web around spiders

    A biologist with an affinity for spiders shared his passion, taking the audience on a tour of arachnids large and small and making a pitch for their conservation as natural pest control.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Giving phobias a rest

    A Harvard-led research team has found that exposure therapy for irrational fear of spiders seems to be more effective if it is followed by sleep, according to a recent study in the Journal of Psychiatric Research.

    4 minutes