Spiders are famous aesthetes. Many craft radially symmetric webs, first extruding long silken spokes and then spinning ...

Have you ever entered a seldom-used room, only to be met by an unexpected web clinging to your face? Or perhaps during an early morning walk, you’ve paused to admire the delicate artistry of a web, ...

A study shows that spider web decorations help spiders locate prey by spreading vibrations across more silk threads.

A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile ...

If you're scared of spiders, Halloween certainly doesn't help. People decorate their homes with monstrous-looking fake ...

One scenario is that the spider stands in one place (say, on a limb) and begins releasing a strand of the web material from ...