Deadly Venom from Spiders and Snakes Can Also Heal What Ails You

TUCSON, Ariz. — In a small room in a building at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, invertebrate caretaker Emma Califf lifts a rock in a plastic box. “This is one of our desert hairs,” she said, pointing to a three-inch-long scorpion with a curved tail on its back. “The largest scorpion in North America.” This captive …

Tomás Saraceno: After Spiders’ Lives in the Air

The Shed has done everything for the multi-tasking Tomás Saraceno by giving three of its four public spaces, or nearly 28,000 square feet, to Tomás Saraceno, a visionary Argentine artist and environmentalist celebrity who is among the world’s greatest spider whisperers. And Saraceno seems to have responded to the favor by conducting a high-minded, though …