Spider silk is known for being biodegradable, light, and durable. The Darwin‘s bark spider weaves the largest webs in the world, and its silk is the strongest biological material known to science.

In some areas of the plant over 95% of space was filled with spider web. The webbing was so dense that it pulled 8-foot long fluorescent light fixtures out of place.

The structure, about 300 times the size of the Milky Way, contains a supermassive black hole that has ensnared six nearby galaxies in a cosmic "spider's web" of gas. It's shedding new light on how ...

A Nanoscale Light Trick Is the Key to Peacock Spiders’ Super-Black Spots A new study shows how patches of bumpy microlenses capture 99.5 of the light that hits them ...

That flashy female was in fact another male firefly, himself trapped in the web, and the spider may have manipulated his light beacon to lure you in. This high-stakes drama plays out nightly in ...