Mad Scientists Taught a Predatory Spider to Jump for Them and Now We’re All Probably Doomed (via Gizmodo)

Scientists at the University of Manchester in the UK trained a spider named Kim to jump for them, then recorded her leaps on high-speed cameras. But don’€™t worry, their research €”published Tuesday in Scientific Reports €”isn’€™t meant for anything nefarious. Nah, they just want to learn how to build a whole legion of jumping spider-robots.

Source: Gizmodo