Month: June 2026

Named for an ancient Roman crossbow-like weapon, the newly found “ballista” spider uses a springy snare to catch prey.

A growing network of home-sharing programs is helping people find compatible housemates.

Her lively, gnarly sculpture stars in her biggest exhibition yet, “Living Moving Growing,” at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

[While prices are up overall, there’s a surprising pattern depending on your destination.

Frontline Congolese workers who conduct safe burials are key to containing what experts fear could become the worst ever Ebola outbreak. They risk not just infection, but the anger of terrified communities.

[The tech scion David Ellison is close to completing a merger that would put the legacy broadcaster and the 24-hour cable news network under the same roof.

Expectations are now rising over the role the United States will play in helping Venezuela, which had already been laid low by decades of misrule.

[She arrived in Moscow in 1955, two years after Stalin’s death, and spent several years as a journalist covering major events and ordinary Soviet lives.