How do spiders make such intricate webs? Don’t get too tangled up about it. In this one-minute video, our Ask Smithsonian host, Eric Schulze, weaves his way to the answer. Explore Subscribe ...

When a US research lab accidentally created a sticky, web-like substance, it turned to Peter Parker and comic-book lore for ...

If you are bitten by a large, black spider in Australia, the medical advice is to treat is as an emergency. However, not all ...

The theory is that flying insects do not notice the web ... However, the Uloboridae spiders make their webs out of a wooly silk (called cribellate) which has velcro-like strands in which 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.

there are seven types of spider silks, but one has caught the eye of scientists worldwide. Randy Lewis: It's called dragline silk, and it's the silk that they use to make the framework of the web ...

But how much do we ... exposed spiders to a range of different chemicals, including caffeine, marijuana, and Benzedrine - a type of amphetamine - and noted how they spun their webs under the ...