A strange funnel-shaped web appears in the Arizona landscape, and the scene quickly turns tense as its purpose becomes clear. The camera lingers on the tunnel-like structure designed to hide movement ...

Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Social spiders are known to make communal webs that may host thousands of them, and finding a giant web structure inhabited by an ...

The Darwin’s bark spider silk has a tensile strength of around 1.6 gigapascals, several times stronger than structural iron, ...

Have you ever entered a seldom-used room, only to be met by an unexpected web clinging to your face? Or perhaps during an early morning walk, you’ve paused to admire the delicate artistry of a web, ...

The spider doppelgängers are made of prey carcasses, plant debris, and other organic materials. They have a central structure from which “legs” branch out. The team proposes that the constructions ...

Spider webs are made from a protein fiber which we call silk. It is both strong and stretchy but not all spider silk is the same, there are several different types. Spiders produce silk using special ...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts -- Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have turned spider webs into music -- creating an eerie soundtrack that could help them better understand how the ...