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.

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have officially brought genetic engineering to the spider’s web. For the first time, researchers have created a gene-edited spider that spins red fluorescent silk.

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 ...

Skin-crawling moment terrifying black spider with green fangs emerges from hole in a wall. A curious man has caught the terrifying moment a tube web spider rapidly crawled out of its hole and ...

By manipulating light with tiny structures, patches on peacock spiders appear superblack, helping accentuate the arachnids’ bright colors.

When these blackened fireflies were captured by the web, the spiders didn’t bite them as they did before, appearing to confirm that the spiders rely on seeing the fireflies’ light to know when ...

A space spider's 570-light-year-long web. Blazars, such as 3C 279, are the bright hearts of galaxies that emit powerful light as the result of hosting a feeding supermassive black hole.

This is the terrifying moment a spider with green fangs lunges from inside a wall in Wiltshire. Chris Brown noticed a silky web surrounded an opening in the bricks outside his office. He used a ...