Halley Feiffer (above left, with John Pankow) does her best with the unfunny “Medieval Play,” but the audience may want to take advice from “Monty Python” and run away. Joan Marcus The witless ...

A. brevis ants waiting to ambush their giant prey. Schmidt et al. Crucial to the success of these “group ambush” attacks is the location of the traps. The ants set up shop in the branches of plants ...

Tropical ants build and set a trap that resembles a medieval torture rack. They use this ingenious setup to capture insect prey much larger than themselves, then rip the victim apart. These ants have ...

Scientists have stretched slivers of skin to twice their size in a week using a robotic bioreactor that is akin to a medieval rack. Scientists have stretched slivers of skin to twice their size in a ...

SLIVERS of skin have been stretched to twice their size in a week using a robotic bioreactor that is akin to a medieval rack. The technique could increase the size, viability and availability of skin ...