New York's Garment District is a dense commercial neighborhood in the heart of Manhattan where the American fashion industry did much of its business for decades. At one time, all aspects of apparel ...

Nepenthes is a worm that creates infinite maze-like traps to target crawlers, who scrape data to train large language models (LLMs). The author warns that Nepenthes 'actually eats everything that gets ...

Carnivorous plants such as Nepenthes acquire the ability to reproduce even in soils lacking nutrients such as nitrogen by preying on insects. In addition, new research has shown that a type of ...

In the olden days of the WWW you could just put a robots.txt file in the root of your website and crawling bots from search engines and kin would (generally) respect the rules in it. These days, ...

Garment District boutique Nepenthes New York is an essential destination for fans of advanced workwear, weird blazers, and glittery, ASAP Rocky-approved track pants. But the Engineered Garments and ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Deep in the forests of Malaysian Borneo lurks a most peculiar ...

Some species that grow where insects are scarce encourage animals to poo in their pitchers Nepenthes carnivorous plants look like toilets, trapping insects and other small creatures in a bowl-shaped ...

An exotic plant species previously unknown to science has been discovered growing in a hothouse in London’s famous Kew Gardens. Botanists discovered the carnivorous pitcher plant – now named Nepenthes ...