While spiders in your house may send you scurrying for a shoe, in space they're almost hypnotic as they struggle to weave a symmetric web in zero gravity.

If robots eventually take over the world, we’ll only have ourselves to blame as we sit trapped inside cocoon-like webs spun by bio-inspired robot spiders.Researchers at the MIT Media Lab have ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Spiders worked together to make the massive web in Lake Tawakoni State Park, researchers say. Three times the spiders built it. Three times wind and rain ravaged it.

The spiders, and Song’s thumb-size memory card embedded within each, will serve their most valuable function as a prototype for hazard monitoring across the country.

Study: Tracking spiders as they weave their webs reveals detailed “choreography” Johns Hopkins researchers used night vision and AI tools to reveal shared set of rules.

This species, just a few millimeters in size, spins its web and then violently hurls it when it detects the approach of prey, capturing it from a distance. Like many other spiders – but not all ...

May 17—May is a month filled with nature happenings. The temperatures are warming, though frost still may be with us. May can be a dry month, but typically we get showers. It is the beginning of ...

Study documents first known observation of spider web so sturdy even birds can perch on them Jorō spiders weave golden webs and sometimes use their silk like a ...

An MIT Media Lab robot mimicked silk worms and spiders and wove a cocoon-like structure with a little programming help from humans.

The art of the orb-style spider web has perplexed evolutionary biologists for a long time. Before DNA sequencing revolutionized the field, they had concluded that spiders who weave silky orbs ...

The Golden Silk Orb-Weaver (Nephila clavipes) and the Yellow Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia) are two spiders that thrive in our area and have been observed by most of us. Both have an uncanny ...