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“Antarctica is not just cold, windy and wet. It is the extreme of all those things.” Alok Jha has been live-reporting his voyage to Antarctica, including the last few weeks spent stranded in ice!

Those mysterious silken towers, discovered in 2013, are made by spiders! But what spiders? And why? Nadia Drake has the story.

“Piranhas have always been among our favorite subjects for sheer, sputtering nonsense.” By Richard Conniff.

“Tremblay wasn’t just seeking to mitigate bad behaviour [but] uncover where it began.” Stephen S. Hall on the accidental epigeneticist

Dolphins are probably not getting “high” off pufferfish.