Science

Yes. Diamondback water snakes (Nerodia rhombifer) occur in Louisiana as part of their Mississippi Valley range; they are nonvenomous freshwater watersnakes.

No. As of September 24, 2026, the National Hurricane Center’s Atlantic season summary listed six named tropical storms and zero hurricanes (and zero major hurricanes). The named storms so far—Arthur, Bertha, Cristobal, Dolly, Edouard, and Fay—all remained at tropical-storm intensity. The season’s accumulated cyclone energy was about 92% below the 1991–2020 normal at that update. … Read more

True daddy longlegs are usually harvestmen (Opiliones), not spiders—though cellar spiders are also nicknamed daddy longlegs.

Cross-coupling reactions join two different molecular fragments into a new covalent bond; palladium-catalyzed Heck, Negishi, and Suzuki reactions are foundational examples recognized by the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Cross-bridges are myosin heads on thick filaments that attach to actin, pull, and cycle with ATP to produce muscle force.

Yes. Cork products come from the bark of the cork oak (Quercus suber), harvested about every nine years without cutting the tree down.

Yes. Crab spiders (family Thomisidae) are real spiders known for crab-like bodies and sideways movement; they ambush prey instead of spinning capture webs.

Most adult insects have a pair of compound eyes made of many ommatidia; some also use simple eyes called ocelli or stemmata.

Complex numbers have the form a+bi. Pure imaginary numbers are the special case with real part a=0; real numbers are the special case with b=0.

Yes. Conifers are woody gymnosperms — mostly evergreen trees (and some shrubs) that bear seeds in cones.