The global crisis of diminishing biological diversity is challenging our current ability to monitor changes in ecosystems.

In discussing where we went wrong, a panel of luminaries, including Vint Cerf and the Internet Archive's Brewster Kahle, sees ...

If we become quantum tomorrow, data is lost today. Quantum comes down to size and efficiency. Current computers approach ...

Happy Halloween, Short Wavers! In today’s news round-up, we’ve got only treats. Hosts Regina Barber and Emily Kwong fill in NPR’s Ailsa Chang on a debate in spider web architecture, how the details ...

The global crisis of diminishing biological diversity is challenging our current ability to monitor changes in ecosystems.

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave talk about spider web architecture, storytelling and memory, and why more TV pixels may not translate to a better viewing experience.

It was here, surely with the help of this lovely library collection, that Hale invented the spectrohelioscope, which you can ...

The Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI) is using artificial intelligence to help understand sperm whale communications.

A new study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology has found that leg loss doesn’t slow tarantulas almost at all.

Researchers simulated the effects that different web decorations had on vibrations, adding fresh insight to a decades-old ...

The purpose of stabilimenta within the web is unclear. They could help collect water, regulate a spider’s body temperature, ...