By plucking the silk like a guitar string and listening to the "echoes" the spider can also assess the condition of its web.’ This technique is used by the spider in its web by ‘tuning’ the ...

You could say his Spider-Sense tingled ... ultimately creating web-slinging technology in which a fluid material can shoot from a needle, immediately solidify as a string, and stick to and ...

These are essentially burrowing spiders and their webs are in the shape of compact, upright silk tube that sticks out from ...

To narrow their investigation, they focused on the major silk type, which makes up the radial threads of the web. Using mass ... bioengineers have used spider silk for suturing at the cellular level.

Dusty spider webs are associated with Halloween and creepy houses, but many are beautiful or architecturally accomplished. Did you know that you can tell what kind of spider is lurking by the threads ...

Find out how web-spinning spiders do what they do and learn about the impressive, multipurpose material they use to catch their dinner. Spiders make their webs from silk, a natural fibre made of ...