Life

Wasteful predation might not be a mistake for the occasionally post-coitally cannibalistic black widow spider. Instead, having extra food around may help put a skittish potential mate's fears to rest.

A wintry forest looks picturesque, but slow-motion violence hides in the frame rate.

A hypnagogic animation of mathematical imagery prompts thoughts of spinning fractal symmetries and the history of life on Earth. Video after the jump.

In a lodge in the shadow of New Hampshire's Mount Washington, reading tales of the summit's almost-implausibly calamitous past.

Robust and primitive, is the GIF the nematode of online imagery? it's as if C. elegans had swum down through the aeons to intersect with an image-making format engineered to express its qualities.

G. K. Chesterton: "The simplest truth about man is that he is a very strange being; almost in the sense of being a stranger on the earth."

GOOD's Nicola Twilley wonders how the industrial analysis of qualities like texture, consistency, and juiciness will transform age-old culinary cultures, in the second in a joint series exploring the science and technology of food.

Bacteria-like microbes trapped in salt crystals in the ancient sediments of California's Saline Valley may have survived for tens of thousands of years.

Foxes may see more than we know: if a team of wildlife biologists is right, they could use magnetic cues to help them judge their predatory leaps.

Whatever advantages fully modern humans enjoyed over their Neanderthal neighbors, lifespan was not among them, according to a new study of the longevity of our Pleistocene predecessors.