When spiders spin their webs, they use their hind legs to pull silk threads from their spinnerets. This pulling action ...

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 ...

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

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