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

Have you ever wondered why spider webs are so perfectly symmetrical? It’s not just for beauty—there’s a scientific reason behind this precision! Learn how spiders use geometry and survival instincts ...

Tiny spiders weaving their intricate ... Watch video: Spin a wicked web this winter Now, simply pointing and shooting at a web may return results you won’t be pleased with.

The theory is that flying insects do not notice the web, fly into it, and get stuck. Orb webs created by Araneidae, Tetragnathidae and Theridosomatidae spiders are made of sticky silk so the ...

"If you are bitten by a funnel-web spider, call an ambulance and go straight to hospital," researcher Geoff Isbister said.

The result is an astonishingly "Spider Man"-like silk that can be shot not unlike the superhero's wrist-mounted web shooters ... no spider has the ability to "shoot a stream of solution, which ...

In their research, detailed in a January 13 study published in the journal BMC Ecology and Evolution, the researchers suggest that the giant, fanged, and hairy Sydney funnel-web spider in ...

Viktor Lakhin's success against Duke and UNC is another chapter in the Anapa, Russia native's wild journey to America despite ...