NASAs 1995 study revealed that chemicals like caffeine and cannabis can radically disrupt spider web-building, offering a unique way to study toxicity and the effects of substances on instinctive ...

Ever wonder if spiders can make music? Well, it turns out that they can. A group of researchers recently interpreted a spider web's structure into sound. The "spider web sonification," they call ...

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How spider webs create music The involved MIT researchers explained that they were able to listen to the spider web model by moving through the web's 2D strings.

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 ...

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Australian scientists have discovered a new species of the deadly funnel-web spider that is bigger and more venomous than its relatives, nicknaming it "Big Boy." In research released Monday ...

Two views of a slingshot spider (Theridiosoma gemmosum) web. The right image shows the web’s cone shape with a spider at the tip. Reproduced with permission of The Company of Biologists.

How small is "small?" Spider silk nanofibrils are just a few molecular layers thick, equivalent to approximately one ten-thousandth the diameter of a human hair. They're invisible to the naked eye ...

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

A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen.