What’s bright yellow, venomous and as big as the palm of your hand? It’s the Jorō spider, and it’s spreading up the East Coast. Spider lovers will be wowed by this eight-legged beauty. Arachnophobes might be booking...
Can climate change influence a spider's aggressive behavior? According to a recent study, yes! [...]
While state officials are arguing with each other about whether to accept refugees into their borders, an actual nuisance has crept into a northern Memphis suburb...
While state officials are arguing with each other about whether to accept refugees into their borders, an actual nuisance has crept into a northern Memphis suburb...
If you suffer from a touch of the arachnophobia, avoid Dallas, Texas at all costs. The neighborhood of Lakeside Park has become home to a canopy of spiderwebs that cover the trees, spanning forty feet in the air and as long...
If you suffer from a touch of the arachnophobia, avoid Dallas, Texas at all costs. The neighborhood of Lakeside Park has become home to a canopy of spiderwebs that cover the trees, spanning forty feet in the air and as long...
If your spidey sense has been tingling recently, this awesome arachnid discovery may be the cause. Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy had the brilliant idea of combining spider silk, one of nature’s strongest...
Two new species of the strikingly-patterned peacock spider have been discovered in southeast Queensland by a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley...
It has always been theorized that the construction of large spacecraft would have to be done in orbit. However, a US company called Tethers Unlimited (TUI), which specialises in additive manufacturing and in-orbit assembly,...
Spider Web photo from Shutterstock Spiders are capable of some amazing things – not the least of which is weaving strong-as-steel webs from silk...
Japanese scientist and music lover, Shigeyoshi Osaki, has discovered that spider silk can be spun into much more the pesky cobwebs. After studying the eight-legged creepers and their silky habits for over 30 years at the...
After getting washed out by last year’s devastating floods in Pakistan, millions of spiders have been building new homes in thousands of trees throughout the country...
Stronger than steel, yet thinner than a human hair, spider silk is an incredible material created by nature that has amazing potential in real-world application...
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