Cave-dwelling orb spiders have adapted their webs so they act as tripwires for prey that crawl on the walls of the caves ...

The story of silk is full of the extraordinary. First Paraguay and Suriname have caterpillars larger than any in Europe, ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spotted a mysterious rock made of hundreds of tiny spheres that resemble spider eggs. Studying ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Speculation surrounds Spider-Man 4 being on Battleworld after a concept art leak. Fans worry about the shift to a high-concept multiverse from grounded storytelling. The recently leaked concept ...

the team has developed artificial fibers similar to threads from the golden silk orb weaver, a large spider with a spectacularly strong web. Despite developing this “recipe” for spider silk, ...

Inspired by how spiders create complex silk structures, the robot uses a special kind of heated polymer to achieve this fantastic feat. Traditional robots tend to have fixed components that are ...

EUROPE's biggest species of spider has arrived in Britain, with the venomous funnel-web creature spotted in a nursery yard. The terrifying stowaway, said to have a "huge appetite", was spotted by ...

First up is Web of Spider-Verse, which sees the Web-Heart scour the Web of Life and Destiny after choosing its first combatants: a leader (Peter Parker of Earth-616), a wild card (Spider-Ham), a ...

It usually takes around an hour for a spider to weave a web but this varies by species and by the type of web. If we take the classic orb web that we are all familiar with, there is usually a set ...