Discover how this Madagascar spider recycles silk proteins to create the largest and strongest webs in nature.

Nature’s Network People often view spider webs as a simple trap for insects, but in natural areas, these thin threads do much more. Webs can serve as hidden components that help maintain the ...

Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy for the spiders' tiny muscles to support.

Do spiders sleep? Yes, they do, and studies show that spiders have sleep phases very like those in mammals, and one of the ...

When they played loud noise to the city spiders, they found that their webs were less sensitive, transmitting fewer vibrations to the funnel. “Their webs were essentially quieter,” Dr. Pessman ...