The number of times I have walked into a spider web is pretty comical. At first, I saw them as a nuisance during my forest ...

Feather-legged lace weaver spider kills prey using toxic regurgitated s Regurgitated poison-coated silk replaces traditional ...

A research team has found that a common spider kills its prey with poison but does not inject it into them—instead, it covers ...

The abdomen of a spider is where silk is produced. Inside these glands, spiders produce a liquid protein solution that is then extruded through tiny nozzle-like organs called spinnerets.

Matthew Dean, Sales Engineer and Head of the Medical Business Unit at maxon, explores how Newrotex and maxon are developing an innovative approach to overcome the common challenges of traditional ...

The abdomen contains much of a spider’s web-making machinery, including the spinnerets and silk glands. Spinnerets are specialized organs that produce silk, enabling spiders to build webs.

These are the unfortunately final moments of victims of the Uloboridae spiders, a family of orb weavers that, unlike almost ...

Deep within the abdomen of spiders are silk glands. The abdomen of a spider is where silk is produced. Inside these glands, spiders produce a liquid protein solution that is then extruded through tiny ...

Spider silk demonstrates an impressive balance of high strength and elasticity, which results from the hierarchical self-assembled structure of spider silk proteins during the fiber biosynthesis and ...

A luxurious fiber once reserved exclusively for emperors in ancient times has been brought back to life by Korean researchers ...