Six-year-old Lyra loves catching frogs in her backyard in summer. But when Lyra started coming home from school saying, "girls shouldn't like catching frogs" or "catching bugs is only for boys", Julie became concerned. "You can't help think that it's coming from her peers as her teacher is really trying to support her love of science," she says. "It wasn't …
They're venomous, they're as big the palm of your hand, and they're spreading fast in the United States. That's certainly what the headlines are implying, at least; one typical example, from Axios, reads "Giant spiders expected to drop from sky across the East Coast this spring," which conjures up visions of paratrooper arachnids. RELATED: Scientists say spider silk could teach …