Like a mindless zombie controlled by a menacing overlord, the spider scampers back and forth, reinforcing its silky web. Not long from now, the subservient arachnid will be dead, its web ...

Orb-weaving spiders take about two hours to create a new web. They start by drifting a silk line across a gap using the breeze. Different types of spiders have slightly different designs.

This would make the web a model example of extended cognition, an idea first proposed by the philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers in 1998 to apply to human thought.

Ever stumbled on a spider web that just left you scratching your head? That’s what happened with a TikTok clip featuring this bizarre, sheet-like web that looked more like a stretchy plastic film than ...

The fake spider is about an inch long, and its builder—a tiny spider that’s only about a quarter of an inch long—can shake the web to make the decoy appear to move.

This homemade lighted spider web can serve as a massive purple beacon announcing the arrival of the spooky season.

King and his Institute colleague, heart disease expert Nathan Palpant, Ph.D., discovered that the Hi1a molecule from the ...