His legacy extends far beyond Peter Parker, inspiring countless others to don the mask, such as Miles Morales, Ben Reilly ...

What’s new? What’s trendy? What haven’t I explored? Such questions often dictate our travel plans, but sometimes, we’d be better off asking the opposite: What’s old? What’s impervious to being in ...

Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy ...

There are more than 50,000 species of spiders in the world, of all different sizes. They live in a wide range of habitats and exhibit many different fascinating behaviors, from spiders that carry ...

Male nursery web spiders (Pisaura mirabilis) use the sense of smell in their legs to find mates. Researchers at the University of Greifswald used an electron microscope to discover "olfactory hairs" ...

The researchers described the scene in a recent publication, calling it “an extraordinary colonial spider community.” The ...

Building these strong yet ephemeral traps is a process that follows patterns shared among spider species. But is there room for individual variation that makes one species' web — or one individual ...

The discovery potentially transforms what we think about how the cosmic environment influences galaxies as they form.

A spider-web Janus membrane combines directional moisture transport, heat modulation, triboelectric power generation and ...

Though a few spiders have six eyes, the default number is eight, usually arranged in two approximate rows, says Richard Jones ...