The wall-pore sensilla are located on the upper part of the male’s legs (close to the body), areas that hardly come in contact with the surface when spiders walk, capture preys or mate. This is ...

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory hairs called wall-pore sensilla on their legs as a “nose” to detect the ...

The study looked at two types of sensory hairs called sensilla on spiders: ones with a single pore at the tip, and others with lots of pores in the wall of the hair shaft. For the wasp spider ...

The ability to tolerate toxic substances can help animals find new food sources and thrive in certain ecological niches. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena have now ...

High-resolution measurement of Roman-era lead pollution in Arctic ice cores at the Desert Research Institute. Image credit: Jessi LeMay (Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada). Atmospheric lead ...

Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China ...