Also known as "angel hair", because of the silky threads the spiders leave behind, “spider rain” is in fact a mass ballooning ...

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

While you might think that we've learned all we need to from feeding spiders illegal drugs, people working at NASA in the 1990s disagreed. In 1995, scientists from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center ...

The bold question-askers at What If uncover how spider silk might be engineered to create next-generation bulletproof skin.

The first new species is Idris bianor, named after the spider genus it parasitizes, according to the study. Its body length is just 0.02 to 0.03 inches long, researchers said, and its body is light ...

Spiders can be an uncomfortable presence for many people but thanks to a new development, their silk is set to enhance nerve ...

We synthesized and characterized a new family of diblock copolymers based on the amino acid sequences of Nephila clavipes major ampulate dragline spider silk, having the form HABn and HBAn (n = 1–3), ...

That intricate web glistening with morning dew in your garden isn’t just nature’s artwork – it’s part of a fascinating ...