Spider webs combine complex principles of physics and chemistry to create one of the world's most remarkable substances. We explain how.

Some orb weavers ingest their silk and systematically ... ‘raspy crickets’, and male centipedes (non-insect arthropods). Importantly, insect silk is different to spider silk in many ways.

Humanity has been hunting for sex-based differences in the brain since at least the time of the ancient Greeks, and it has ...

Note to readers: The News-Press and Naples Daily News recently caught up with Amy Siewe, famously known as the Python Huntress. Siewe gave a lecture at J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge on ...

Rather, the chains were used by the person during life to limit mobility as a part of a religious ascetic lifestyle.

Researchers previously believed that a small, bushy seaweed in the Baltic Sea belonged to a species called narrow wrack. New ...

Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered because it carries ...

Whether readers pick up a copy of the original "Eve" or the new YA adaptation, they'll be presented with an incredibly ...

The pioneering research of UC Santa Cruz’s Upasna Sharma to determine how a father’s life experiences and environment can ...