A lot of the Silklab’s work is “bio-inspired” by spiders and silkworms, mussels and barnacles, velvet worm slime, even tropical orchids—so working out whether this sticky web could become ...

Perhaps the most famous group of spiders that construct funnel-shaped webs is the Australian funnel-web spiders. There are 36 of them and some are dangerous as they produce a fast-acting and ...

Spider-Tracers are a sort of status effect applied by Spider-Man's alternate attack, Cyber-Web Cluster. When an enemy is hit by Spidey's webs, they'll receive a Spider Web mark on top of their ...

A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they had ever seen.See the funnel-web spider Hemsworth ...

The deadly Sydney funnel-web is three distinct species – not one, as previously thought, scientists have confirmed. Spider experts have long suspected the Sydney funnel-web was more than one species ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider is the most venomous in the world. This scientists already knew since it has 13 people have been reported to have been killed by it. What some Australian scientists didn’t ...

Spiders build symmetrical webs for more than just beauty—they’re an incredible survival tool. Discover the science and geometry behind these intricate structures and how they help spiders catc ...