Embellishments called stabilimenta helped propagate waves along simulated spider webs when prey landed on them, shedding new ...

Spider-Man has much in common with the male spiders whose powers he emulates, a study has found. Like the comic book hero, male spiders of many forest species are adept at flinging out lines of silk ...

Scientists offer a new idea for why orb-weaving arachnids add decorations known as stabilimenta to their webs.

Love or hate them, there is a lot to be admired in these eight-legged creatures and those intricate webs they weave can help keep the flies at bay; but how do they make their webs and are they just to ...

Spiders are famous aesthetes. Many craft radially symmetric webs, first extruding long silken spokes and then spinning ...

Spiders and this time of year sit well together, and any mention of spiders brings silk to mind. As autumn draws in and nights grow colder and longer, spider webs become more obvious on cool mornings ...

Some people find them spine-chilling, while others see them as natural works of art. In this country, spider webs typically ...

Spider webs are active, maintained structures built by spiders for hunting, shelter, or laying eggs, showcasing remarkable silk. Cobwebs, conversely, are abandoned, dusty, and neglected remnants of ...

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, developed by researchers at Nanjing Tech ...

Marvel’s Spider-Man game looks like it could be a winner, writes Ronan Jennings Back when the internet was called the World Wide Web, the idea of a decent Spider-Man game was spool’s gold. You’d be ...