Spiders spin silken webs to capture flies and other tiny prey. They’re also trapping a wealth of DNA from the surrounding environment, a hidden resource that Australian scientists said could be ...

Not all spider silk is created equal. Some spiders spin webs of wet, sticky silk. Others like the Uloborus spider have fluffy webs made of nanoscale filaments. But those fluffy webs are just as ...

Spiders spin webs out of silk, but they also use their threads as slingshots, submarines, and hang-gliders.

The spider, Uloborus plumipes, better known as the garden center spider, spins incredibly fine nano-filaments of silk that carry a small electric charge.

Spider webs reach out and grab airborne prey and particles thanks to an electrostatic glue that coats their surface, zoologists at Oxford University have discovered.

Walking into a spider web may be bothersome to one person and a major fright to another. If you're the spider, I wonder if you're ever frustrated. Exactly how spiders form silk remains a mystery ...

Meet the newest odd couple of the animal kingdom: the giant female and tiny male of the largest web-spinning spider known to science: Nephila komaci.

Next time you eat a chili pepper, think tarantula. The creepy spider and the fiery vegetable use a similar chemical tactic to discourage attackers.