Spider webs present an intriguing challenge to evolutionary biologists. These finely honed death traps come in many forms, from the trampoline-like construction of the sheet web spider, to the ...

Some spiders make fanciful additions to their webs. While theories abound, scientists remain stumped by the creations. Leave it to the spiders to do something that is compellingly beautiful and ...

It's the morning of December 25 - the festive playlist is on, you're sat in your pyjamas and you reach for a present under the tinsel-wrapped tree. And then you spot a huge crawling spider. It's far ...

In a new study led by the laboratories of Prof. Prashant Sharma of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Dr. Efrat Gavish-Regev of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a team of researchers has ...