Researchers funded by the U.S. Navy have used gene-editing technology to make house spiders produce red fluorescent silk. This might seem like a quirky scientific novelty, but the breakthrough is a ...

We recently reported on a new discovery about those zigzags you see in spider webs. Silken decorations like these are known ...

Why do spider webs have zigzag designs? New research reveals how they act like vibration alarms to help the spider sense its ...

Understanding how the stretching process strengthens spider silk is a key part of helping design stronger, biodegradable, silk-inspired materials for various applications. When spiders spin their webs ...

An empty spider web likely means that a spider has passed on, but most times a spider takes down their own web! Read here to ...

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 ...