Spiders give some folks the heebie-jeebies, but web-weaving arachnids produce a unique, versatile material that could be the ...

Stronger than steel and more eco-friendly than plastic, spider silk is an alluring substance for material scientists. 1 However, researchers know little about the proteins that comprise it and how ...

Whether you are a fan of spiders or terrified of them, you can’t help but admire their ability to make webs. These fascinating and unique structures are incredible feats of engineering that combine ...

Gram-for-gram spider silk is the strongest stuff around. Now a company in Utah and California has a plan to make a supercar out of it. Spidey Tek uses research from Utah State University’s Synthetic ...

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 ...

Ian has a spider. My son-in-law doesn’t actually refer to her as a pet, but he spends a lot of time checking on her well-being and reporting her progress. She hasn’t bitten him. Yet. When I visited ...

Imagine designing and creating a rope only an inch thick, able to stretch without breaking two to four times its normal length but strong enough to stop a huge airliner. Then add to the requirements ...

When I first saw it, I was unsure what kind of arachnid it was,” said Russell Garwood, a paleontologist at the University of Manchester, “The legs and entire front half of the body [were] buried in ...

According to museum scientist and naturalist at the Sibley Nature Center, Michael Nickell, all the spider silk West Texans have seen the past couple of days is indeed coming from spiders, just not ...

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: ...

Paleontologists have taken another hard look at the fossilized remains of an arachnid that lived 386 million years ago, and have stripped away its title as the oldest known spider. The creature, ...