Scientists found South America’s first insect-bearing amber, a 112-million-year-old time capsule from a lost dinosaur-era forest

For more than a century, amber has helped scientists reconstruct vanished worlds by preserving tiny fragments of life that ...
Frontiers

Frogs new to science and proof we’d rather look anywhere but at spiders: Here are Frontiers’ photo highlights of the month

Credits left to right: Dr. Marshal Hedin, Richard Collins, Putra el al., T. Trombley, Christoph Liedtke. At Frontiers, we bring some of the world’s best research to a global audience. But with tens of ...
Science Daily

This tiny molecular trick makes spider silk almost unbreakable

Scientists have cracked a key mystery behind spider silk’s legendary strength and flexibility. They discovered that tiny molecular interactions act like natural glue, holding silk proteins together as ...