Some spiders spin webs of wet, sticky silk. ... Or hopefully, applications in making a real-life electric Spider Man.[Current Biology via Science] Silk spigots on the Uloborus spider.

Spider webs actively spring towards prey thanks to electrically-conductive glue spread across their surface, scientists have discovered. The researchers found that the electrostatic properties of ...

Honeybees can generate up to 200 volts -- to detach pollen from flowers - and spider webs may take advantage of that, according to the study at U.C. Berkley by Victor Manuel Ortega-Jimenez and ...

Power of the web: The secret of how spiders catch their prey. New research reveals that an electrical quirk sends a spider's woven silk springing towards its victims.

Spider webs are architectural marvels. Their silks are similar in tensile strength to alloy steel. Their adhesive properties adjust to movements of prey ensnared in them. Yet they are, for many of ...

A ballooning spider. Michael Hutchinson. Spiders: it shouldn’t be surprising that a creature with four times our number of legs and eyes sees the world a little differently.But as research is ...

When she generated electric fields similar to the natural ones spiders would encounter in the wild, the spiders raised their rears to spin silk into the air. The behavior is called tiptoeing, and the ...

Spider catapults towards prey using energy stored in its web. The study’s lead author, Younghoon Lee, agrees, adding that the team’s approach could also apply to “existing robotics components based on ...

Cross spiders mostly dine on flies, not bees, and so far, no one has tested whether flies have an electric charge. The bigger question, Buehler said, is how many insects are electrically charged ...

In 1832, Charles Darwin witnessed hundreds of ballooning spiders landing on the HMS Beagle while some 60 miles offshore. Ballooning is a phenomenon that's been known since at least the days of ...

Spider webs turn the airways of fields and forests into a gauntlet of traps. Once spun, these silken snares lie in wait for insects to blunder into them. But they’re not entirely passive. Victor ...

A web constructed from synthetic spider silk Material scientists have made artificial spider webs that attract objects and shake off water, just like the real thing. They hope that the material ...