In the wake of a recent fire at the Park Victoria building in Halifax, several former tenants have come forward with complaints about substandard living conditions at the apartment high-rise.

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Yemen’s Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi says that all Saudi oil and other vital facilities would be targets for the group’s missiles and drones if Riyadh involves itself in what he describes as ...

A ballista spider (Propostira sp.) waits for a green tree ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) to bite the cone of its web and thus spring the snare. Credit: Professor Ajay Narendra et al This nocturnal ...

The ballista spider builds sophisticated spring-loaded snares to catapult its prey. Newly discovered, the ballista spider rests underneath a leaf during the day. Scientists have witnessed the spider ...

Metabolic reprogramming and epigenetic alterations contribute to the aggressiveness of human bladder cancer (BC). Lactate-dependent histone modification represents a novel class of histone marks that ...

A newly discovered spider in the rainforests of northern Queensland has evolved an extraordinary hunting technique. Researchers say the species uses a powerful spring-loaded silk trap to capture a ...

Named for an ancient Roman crossbow-like weapon, the newly found “ballista” spider uses a springy snare to catch prey. By K. R. Callaway In the dead of night, a predator lays its traps in the ...

In an unprecedented example of hunting specialisation, the ballista spider has evolved a silk-powered snare that targets just one species of ant, launching its prey into the air with astonishing power ...

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