Figure 1: Material behaviour of dragline spider silk, web model, and behaviour of webs under load. Figure 2: Web response for varied silk behaviour under targeted (local) and distributed (global) ...

Jumping spiders of the genus Portia exhibit remarkable hunting skills, retaining visual information about prey even when ...

Study led by Oxford University found that spider silk transmits vibrations across a range of frequencies When a silk thread is plucked like a guitar string, the sound it makes carries information ...

It’s no secret that the internet and social media fuel rampant spread of (mis)information in many areas of life. Now, researchers reporting in Current Biology on August 22 have explored this ...

It's no secret that the internet and social media fuel rampant spread of (mis)information in many areas of life. Now, researchers have explored this phenomenon as it applies to news about spiders. The ...

Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Insomniac Games shared a new screenshot and information tidbits for Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales in an Entertainment Weekly feature on ...

Poisonous Spiders of South Carolina originally appeared on Dengarden. In case you don't know, almost all spiders are capable of producing venomous bites. But in South Carolina, there are really only ...

Upcoming Marvel movie, Spider-Man: No Way Home, has long been rumoured to include a collection of supervillains. Villains including Jamie Foxx's Electro has been teased alongside Alfred's Doctor ...

Insomniac Games, a subsidiary of Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), was attacked by ransomware and 1.67TB of data was stolen. It is said that the stolen data includes a large amount of unreleased ...

If the mere *thought* of a spider crawling on your skin makes you shiver, same! But if you’re dealing with an actual spider bite, you may start to panic—they can be painful, itchy, and super ...