I'm afflicted with web aversion. In all likelihood, so are you. I'm not talking about distaste for the Internet. I'm talking about our instinct to recoil when we blunder into a spider's web -- ...
Charlotte would be proud. A Japanese researcher has spun thousands of strands of spider silk into a set of violin strings. The strings are said to have a "soft and profound timbre" compared to ...
SPIDERS can now give you goosebumps in a good way. This violin owes its thrilling sound to its strings – the first to be spun from spider silk. Shigeyoshi Osaki at Nara Medical University in Japan ...