INDIANAPOLIS | Prof. Ajay Narendra from Macquarie University in Australia tells NPR about his team's discovery of a particularly rare, and high-powered, hunting method of the informally named "ballista spider.".
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Proportional language matters. A headline can be important without proving every broader implication suggested by politics, markets, technology, culture, weather or public-safety debate. Careful wording protects readers from exaggeration and keeps a limited source item from becoming a broader claim.
Concrete statements need an accountable home. Names, dates, places, official actions, prices, casualties, scores, warnings, studies, filings and legal claims should be traceable to the credited source or to primary records added in a future update. If that trace is missing, the claim should not be treated as settled.
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Correction: This article has been reclassified from Energy to Environment because the source material concerns a scientific and natural-world discovery, not energy markets or infrastructure.
Additional Reporting By: NPR