With a grant from the National Science Foundation, KQED Science, a unit of the San Francisco-based public media organization, had the opportunity to work with science communication researchers to ...

Tiny spiders play an arachnid version of “I Spy” from their lofty tree-housed turrets. Curious? If the idea sparked an inquisitive mind state, it could make you more likely to both pursue and engage ...

Here’s what compound eyes really do — and why flies see you in slow motion. In this episode of Big Ideas, Niba explores how insects actually see the world — from the structure of ommatidia to motion ...