A spider no larger than a coin has upended what scientists thought they knew about natural materials. Discovered in the wilds ...

Scientists have uncovered a 400-million-year-old genetic secret that gave spiders the ability to produce silk and weave their ...

Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the ...

The Darwin’s bark spider silk has a tensile strength of around 1.6 gigapascals, several times stronger than structural iron, ...

A newfound defensive tactic takes advantage of this idea: researchers documented spiders building giant spiderlike ...

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 ...

Question: Every summer I get spider webs on the underside of my porch roofs. I do not see any spiders when I inspect them ...

Have you ever entered a seldom-used room, only to be met by an unexpected web clinging to your face? Or perhaps during an early morning walk, you’ve paused to admire the delicate artistry of a web, ...