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Discover how spiders adapt their webs to urban noise pollution, shedding light on the impact of human activity on wildlife.

From needles, snakes and airplanes to test-taking, speech-making and germs, sources of all-encompassing panic can make ...

Walking into a spider web might make you panic, even if it’s only a few feet wide. Now imagine colliding into one over 80 feet long. That’s unlikely, but thanks to the Darwin’s bark spider ...

A 20-year-old Florida resident has pleaded guilty to federal charges related to his involvement with the Scattered Spider hacking group, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and ...

SpiderBot experiments hint at “echolocation” to locate prey Experiments with robotic spiders and prey suggest spiders can detect differences in natural web frequencies.

Unlike other catapulting spiders, for instance, the slingshot spiders don’t seem to rely on their prey actually touching the web to spring an attack.

"Spider pulsars thus offer observable stellar engine technosignature candidates, with decades of data, active studies that discover, model and monitor these dazzling systems," he concludes.

Scientists have created artificial spider web silk that they say can be used to make ultra-strong bandages for treating chronic wounds.

In China, the arachnids seem to somehow manipulate the flashing of a caught male firefly to resemble a female’s come-hither signal. Once this spider gets a firefly into its parlor, it seems to ...

This study applies convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and digital morphogenesis research methods to perform biomimetic design of the morphology of 3D printed materials, furthering structural ...

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