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 ...

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 adventures, but upon a closer look with my macro lens, I began to notice that ...

Dragline silk or major ampullate (MA) silk, the part of a spider's web that forms the main frame and spokes, is one of the ...

Beginning a chain of events that will presumably lead to the origin of our universe's Spider-Man, researchers in Germany have created the world's first spiders to be genetically modified using CRISPR ...

They’re described as yucky, creepy, or frightening and, according to a certain nursery rhyme, one of them "scared little Miss Muffet away,” but once you get to know them, you’ll realize that spiders ...

The University of Wisconsin Arboretum hosted the last Virtual Winter Enrichment Lecture Feb. 22, titled “Spiders: Tiny Tool-Users in Wisconsin and Beyond,” hosted by UW–Green Bay professor of biology ...

The other day I dove headfirst into a spiderweb while half-asleep inside my camper van. Screams aside, the logical part of me marveled at how fast a single creepy-crawly had woven such an ...

Current methods for repairing injured nerves can be hit-and-miss and are restricted to repair over short distances. For the first time, researchers have combined two kinds of silk to create a ...