When you’re deep cleaning, you’ve probably mindlessly cleared away a cobweb in the corner of the ceiling. And understandably so — spider webs don’t exactly add to your home’s aesthetic. Your mindless ...

The researchers described the scene in a recent publication, calling it “an extraordinary colonial spider community.” The ...

When you're deep cleaning, you've probably mindlessly cleared away a cobweb in the corner of the ceiling. And understandably so - spider webs don't exactly add to your home's aesthetic. Your mindless ...

These circular creations are made by a class of spiders called orb weavers that includes lots of common garden spiders. They adjust their design based on which insects they’re most likely to capture: ...

Spider webs are made from a protein fiber which we call silk. It is both strong and stretchy but not all spider silk is the same, there are several different types. Spiders produce silk using special ...

If spiders use their webs like a large external eardrum, researchers reasoned, perhaps spider silk could be the basis for a powerful listening device. By Jordan Pearson Engineers and scientists have ...

MUSKEGON, MI – Walking into a sticky spider web can be a day wrecker, and Michigan’s woods are full of them. The clingy structures attach to faces and clothes and are a pain to remove. That stickiness ...

What is thought to be the world's largest-known spider's web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published their ...