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

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

Study co-author Fuzhong Zhang, the Francis F. Ahmann Professor at Washington University ... the team has developed artificial fibers similar to threads from the golden silk orb weaver, a large spider ...

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 ...

Study coauthor Fuzhong Zhang, the Francis F. Ahmann Professor at Washington ... similar to threads from the golden silk orb weaver, a large spider with a spectacularly strong web.

When spiders spin their webs, they use their hind legs to pull silk threads from their spinnerets. This pulling action doesn't just help the spider ...