The web is stretchy, which allows the spider to amplify its own power by using what the scientists call "elastic recoil." Study co-author Daniel Maksuta, a physicist at the University of Akron ...

That flashy female was in fact another male firefly, himself trapped in the web, and the spider may have manipulated his light beacon to lure you in. This high-stakes drama plays out nightly in ...

The researchers at Tufts University have created a real-life version of Spider-Man's web-shooters, and it’s not just some sticky string in a can. This is cutting-edge biomimicry at its finest.

What happens when an insect touches a spider’s web? Most web-spinning spiders line their silken threads with droplets of glue, which snag blundering insects. But one group—the cribellate ...

Larger, more venomous version of one of world's deadliest spiders discovered 00:45. Australian scientists have discovered a new species of the deadly funnel-web spider that is bigger and more ...

(Learn why scientists say spider silk is one of the most versatile materials on Earth.) “Four or five months later, this guy calls me and says he's found a bird sitting on a web,” Davis recalls.

A normal web of the orb weaving spider A. bifurca. “Spinning under the influence” is one way to describe recent activities in the Costa Rican laboratory of Smithsonian scientist William Eberhard. An ...

Study documents first known observation of spider web so sturdy even birds can perch on them. Jorō spiders weave golden webs and sometimes use their silk like a parachute to float on air.

“Marvel’s Spider-Man: Beyond Amazing — The Exhibit” at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry is smartly centered around the endless interpretations of Spider-Man the Character.