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

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

Beautifully weird and astonishingly intricate. And the banana spiders of South Carolina are no exception. An encounter with a golden orb weaver or a Banana Spider. Take a closer look. One of your ...

By extruding engineered spider silk proteins and then stretching them by hand, the team has developed artificial fibers ...

The protein used to make the silk is a precious resource for the spider so it is not surprising that they do not want to ...

Spider webs are as diverse as the spiders that make them. The orb web, made famous by orb weaver spiders, is a classic circular design with radiating spokes connected by spirals of silk.

Prey stick to orb-weaver spider webs because their waxy outer layers mesh with spider silk to form a matrix glue. A team of physics students in the U.K. have worked out that spider silk could be ...

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

Dominating this picture, a giant orb-weaving spider, (Mongolarachne jurassica) having spun a web amongst the Ginko baiera twigs, has just caught a giant cicada (Palaeontinodes reshuitangensis).

Little did they know they were in for what Shamble says was “a huge surprise”: the strength of this spiders’ silk parallels—and even surpasses—that of most orb weaver spiders, which produce 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 ...