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It's no secret that the internet and social media fuel rampant spread of (mis)information in many areas of life. Now, researchers have explored this ...

"It would be nice to explore media representation of a broader selection of organisms, including animals that are venomous but not stigmatized in the same way, like bees, but also other feared venomous animals, such as snakes," Mammola said. They also want to understand better how differences in cultural, social, and other factors influence differences in the way spiders are represented and talked about across various countries and regions. The tone and quality of "news" stories about spiders shape our perception and ideas about them, with implications for us and for spiders' wildlife conservation. They now want to explore more about how poor-quality information on spiders relates to the persistence of arachnophobic sentiments in the population. "Spider-related information in the press flows through a highly interconnected global network, and the spread of misinformation is driven by a limited number of key factors, the sensationalistic tone of an article being particularly important." Mammola said he was inspired to do the study initially based on general disappointment about the quality of spider-related newspaper articles in Italy.

While researchers have never found a wormhole in our universe, scientists often see wormholes described in the solutions to important physics equations. Most ...

[only one year](https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.physics/9905030). [too small](https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814289931_0055) to counteract a wormhole’s own gravity. [collapse under its own gravity](https://doi.org/10.1119/1.15620), unless it had some force pushing outward from inside the wormhole to counteract that force. Because Einstein’s theory has been tested many, many times and found to be [correct every time](https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1705.04397), some scientists do expect wormholes to exist somewhere out in the universe. [theory of space-time and general relativity](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.48.73) include wormholes. But if they do find strong evidence pointing to the existence of wormholes – which they may be able to do by looking at odd movements in [a tunnel between two distant points](https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/what-is-a-wormhole/) in our universe that cuts the travel time from one point to the other. The scientists who are skeptical about wormholes believe that after a short time the middle of the wormhole would While researchers have never found a wormhole in our universe, scientists often see wormholes described in the solutions to important physics equations. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). But, if they wanted to get there faster, they could dig a tunnel straight through the mountain to create a shortcut. You might emerge from one end of a wormhole at a time earlier than when you entered its other end.