Christmas is celebrated in many different places around the world, and some of this holiday's traditions are fairly unknown ...

Spiders are quite intelligent regarding survival, and the example that illustrates this best is that of Cyclosa orb weavers.

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Cobwebs and Christmas don’t seem to have much in common. But one legend, deeply rooted in Ukrainian tradition, brings them all together — and also explains why tinsel became a Christmas classic. In ...

Spiders from Mars? Try Europa. A team of planetary scientists from Ireland have examined and named an intriguing feature on the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon that resembles the shape of an arachnid — ...

An extreme close-up of the Australian rufous net-casting spider's unique silk, captured by biologist Martín Ramírez and his colleagues, reveals in intricate detail the material qualities that make ...

Dragline silk or major ampullate (MA) silk, the part of a spider's web that forms the main frame and spokes, is one of the toughest materials known to science. That is, it can absorb massive amounts ...