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Residents and travelers should be especially cautious of the trapdoor spider, the Sydney funnel-web spider, and the redback spider. If you want to go somewhere on Earth without a single spider, ...

Have you ever wondered why spider webs are so perfectly symmetrical? It’s not just for beauty—there’s a scientific reason behind this precision! Learn how spiders use geometry and survival ...

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Oh what a tangled web we weave when the multiverse becomes part of Spider-Man canon. The Spider-Man film franchise started simply enough, with 2002’s “Spider-Man.” Fast forward 20 years and ...

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Diego Leon calls himself a dreamer, but even he cannot quite have envisaged this — the sheer, pin-your-ears-back speed of the whole thing. In the middle of last year, he was a nobody.

The 28-year-old daughter of Madonna and Carlos Leon went braless and bared her nipples in a NSFW catsuit at Saint Laurent's show during 2025 Paris Fashion Week.