A clinical trial is set to test whether a protein from the venom of the K’gari funnel web spider can protect hearts during ...

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 ...

While working on a project to create super-strong adhesive using a silk moth protein known as fibroin, researcher Marco Lo ...

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 ...

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 ...

Late summer is a critical time for pest control, making it essential for homeowners to adeptly recognize the subtle ...

Every kid who has read a comic book or watched a Spider-Man movie has tried to imagine what it would be like to shoot a web ...

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.

Jakob, Elizabeth M. 1993. Arachnophilia: Spiders in Ecological Webs . David H. Wise. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1993. xiv, 328 pp., illus. $79.95 or £45 ...

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 ...