Find out how web-spinning spiders do what they do and learn about the impressive, multipurpose material they use to catch their dinner. Spiders make their webs from silk, a natural fibre made of ...

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

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 ...

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

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory ...