Building these strong yet ephemeral traps is a process that follows patterns shared among spider species. But is there room for individual variation that makes one species' web — or one individual ...

Spiders Web is a docu-fiction film that follows Spider, a 56 year old man from Toronto who is yet again facing jail time. His last hope of staying out of prison is finding Cougar, a woman he’s ...

Spiders have eight legs. Here comes another spider. It lives in a web. Spiders like to eat bugs, and this one has caught a woodlouse. Most spiders like to live on a web. They make the web out of ...

The stream of liquid silk quickly turns to a strong fiber that sticks to and lifts objects - although not yet villains.

Your support makes all the difference. Scientists have created artificial spider web silk that they say can be used to make ultra-strong bandages for treating chronic wounds. The silken bandages ...

By adding chitosan and borate buffer, the researchers were also able to enhance the fibers’ strength and adhesiveness. This ...

Sep. 24, 2024 — It's almost time to dust off the Halloween decorations and adorn the house with all manner of spooky things, including the classic polyester spider webs. Scientists have made ...

You have probably admired more than once the almost perfect beauty of spider webs. Do you know why they have a circular structure? There are several reasons for this. Today, scientists recognize about ...

Researchers at Tufts University have developed a new technology making Spider-Man’s web-slinging a reality. The device can ...

Scientists are creating artificial spider silk by drawing strands from an array of tiny hollow needles, as shown here, similar to how arachnids do it. Credit: ACS Nano (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano ...

Researchers at Tufts University’s Silklab have developed a silk-based sticky fluid that instantly turns into a fibrous material when ejected, evoking the gravity-defying, web-slinging powers of the ...