Spider webs are made from a protein fiber which we call silk. It is both strong and stretchy but not all spider silk is the same, there are several different types. Spiders produce silk using special ...

Unless you’re an arthropod admirer, like me, it’s not uncommon to panic if you see a web in the corner of your porch or kitchen ceiling. The good news is that most spiders in US homes and yards are ...

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Spiders think with their webs, challenging our ideas of intelligence Josh Newton at Curtin University in Western Australia and his colleagues have found that spider webs capture the DNA of creatures ...