Last December, in the quiet week between Christmas and January, I walked a few blocks to my office and put away the holiday decorations for another year. I knew the ...

Saad Bhamla and his research group have been studying the behaviour of an ‘extraordinary zoo’ of organisms, hoping to find ...

High above the rivers of Madagascar, a small arachnid is quietly rewriting what I thought was possible in nature. The ...

Deep in Madagascar’s rainforests lives a spider no bigger than a coin, easy to miss and rarely noticed. Yet this tiny ...

Scientists have uncovered a 400-million-year-old genetic secret that gave spiders the ability to produce silk and weave their ...

A spider no larger than a coin has upended what scientists thought they knew about natural materials. Discovered in the wilds ...

The Darwin’s bark spider silk has a tensile strength of around 1.6 gigapascals, several times stronger than structural iron, ...

Car manufacturers are trialing spider-silk bioleather in seats and interior components, probing the hard limits of automotive-grade performance.

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What makes spider silk so extraordinarily strong and elastic at the same time? This was the focus of recent investigations carried out by researchers from the University of Greifswald, the University ...

You probably think of snakes as fearsome predators that sit near the top of the food chain. While that is often true, snakes ...

An ancient ancestor of spiders and relatives doubled its genome about 400 million years ago, setting the stage for the ...