Since the Industrial Revolution, human activity has led to a surge in environmental noise. The sounds of traffic, airplanes, ...

Researchers have found evidence that a common North American spider species alters its webs to deal with urban noise ...

An American and a Japanese were among people who helped identify the mystery spider sac photographed by a Singaporean. Read ...

From the innocent daddy longlegs to the harmful brown recluse, here are the most common house spiders, how to identify them, ...

A groundbreaking study by University of Nebraska–Lincoln biologists has revealed that funnel-weaving spiders, also known as ...

“When they spin silk out of their silk gland, spiders use their hind legs to grab the fiber and pull it out. That stretches ...

Spiders don’t just spin webs—they engineer them. By stretching their silk as they spin, spiders strengthen the fibers at the ...

When they weave their webs, spiders pull their silk threads. New simulations show stretching during spinning causes the protein chains within the fibers to align and the number of hydrogen bonds ...

Surface tension causes the liquid silk to break into the sticky droplets. It usually takes around an hour for a spider to weave a web but this varies by species and by the type of web. If we take the ...

When spiders weave their webs, each spider pulls at the silk threads, from its spinneret, using its hind legs. This pulling action not only aids with the release of the silk, it also helps with ...

Simulations showed that stretching aligns protein chains and increases hydrogen bonds, which act like tiny bridges between ...