For as long as I can remember I have been afraid of spiders. The little ones pose no problems, but the large ones, with their ...

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New research by a University of Manchester psychologist could give new hope to people who are scared of spiders. Dr Warren Mansell says rather than encouraging arachnophobics to face their fears, ...

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Listen to audio highlights from this interview. Poisonous spiders, sexual cannibalism, adaptive suicide—biologist Maydianne Andrade jokes that her research makes for good cocktail party ...

Most people with arachnophobia are extremely reluctant to expose themselves to real spiders – but what if the spiders only exists in the digital world? Researchers have developed a new augmented ...

Looking down at the palms of my hands, which are joined together to create a shallow bowl, I can hardly believe what I’m seeing: a huge, black and red spider that spans their entire width and that ...