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 ...

Feather-legged lace weaver spider kills prey using toxic regurgitated s Regurgitated poison-coated silk replaces traditional ...

In addition, some species of spider are able to create silk that is the stronger than Kevlar and has many practical uses ...

A research team has found that a common spider kills its prey with poison but does not inject it into them—instead, it covers ...

"Dragline silk is the main structural silk of a spider web. It is also used as a ... use their softer silks for the construction of their cotton-ball-like cocoons during transformation into ...

Silkworm thread has been turned into superstrong material that surpasses the strength of natural spider silks, according to research. Scientists have made it 70 percent stronger than a spider's ...

Getting enough silk is difficult. Spiders make the strongest silk that we know about. Unfortunately, spider silk is hard to come by—it’s certainly very hard to get enough for most uses ...

Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have recently successfully bred the world’s first CRISPR-Cas9-modified spider to produce red fluorescent silk. For this work, they used a species of ...

If spiders use their webs like a large external eardrum, researchers reasoned, perhaps spider silk could be the basis for a powerful listening device. By Jordan Pearson Engineers and scientists ...