Bowie Gets Spider Named After Him

A yellow, hairy spider that lives in the rainforests of Malaysia has been named after singer David Bowie. The spider was discovered by spider specialist Peter Jaeger, who has found over 200 new species of spider in the last ten years - most of them endangered. Jaeger named...

Fiction is crucial to our survival as a species

"Why do human beings spend so much time telling each other invented stories, untruths that everybody involved knows to be untrue? People in all societies do this, and do it a lot, from grandmothers spinning fairy tales at the hearthside to TV show runners marshaling roomfuls...

6,000 rare Irrawaddy dolphins found off Bangladesh coast

6,000 of the rare Irrawaddy dolphins have been spotted off the coast of Bangladesh, which is a hopeful sign that the species is making a comeback. They are however, threatened by climate change and fishing in the region and they will need supervision and care in order for...