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

Discover why only female Darwin's bark spiders produce the strongest silk, surpassing steel in toughness and strength.

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - A tapestry woven with the silk of more than 1 million spiders has been put on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York as scientists struggle to ...

Spider silk occupies a distinct place in natural materials science for its combination of mechanical strength, toughness and fineness. These protein fibres have evolved over hundreds of millions of ...

Larinioides sclopetarius, commonly known as bridge spiders, helped researchers from Binghamton University investigate how spiders listen to their environments through webs as a way to inspire future ...