Since the Industrial Revolution, human activity has led to a surge in environmental noise. The sounds of traffic, airplanes, construction and more clutter the outdoor soundscape, challenging animals' ...

Some see them as architectural marvels of nature, while others can hardly bear to look at them: Spider webs both fascinate and frighten. While they usually measure only a few inches in Central ...

Webs can be decorated with decoys, fine-tuned like guitars—and hold secrets about evolution. A Cyclosa spider is camouflaged on a web with debris attached to make itself less visible at the Los Amigos ...