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Sweeping bans on fishing across the Yangtze River upset the lives of nearly a quarter of a million people, but with the long view in mind, China’s radical policy has already had a remarkable impact on biodiversity.

Spiders belong to an ancient lineage of animal that goes back hundreds of millions of years, so if we find a behavior present in spiders it has big implications for just how long that behavior’s been around. As new research has become the first to comprehensively prove, that now includes sleep.

Long before the Pyramids of Giza were built, as the ancient Egyptian state was just beginning to take shape under the rulers of the First Dynasty, a woman named Meretneith took charge of the nascent superpower.

Fear comes to us in many ways, but the overall feeling is a bad one. A sense of “Oh Christ, it’s right behind me, isn’t it?”

The phrase “Dark side of the Moon” was a popular one long before Pink Floyd put it on one of the most famous album covers of all time, but it’s one that has long annoyed astronomers.