If you're walking outdoors, chances are something remarkable is happening under your feet. Vast fungal networks are silently working to keep ecosystems alive.

Most of Australia’s plants rely on a hidden underground network of fungi for water and minerals. They could be in trouble – ...

In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders ...

The researchers found that funnel-weaving spiders alter how their silk webs transmit vibrations in response to local noise.

Spider-Man 4 will be a "fresh start" for Peter Parker, according to star Tom Holland, so forget everything you know about the character and get ready for a brand-new MCU adventure. The film, which ...

Males also do a sexy shimmy to dazzle the ladies. Measuring no bigger than 0.2 inches (0.5 centimeters), the sparklemuffin peacock spider is, arguably, one of the cutest spiders around.

In a key development on the banking front, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has approved the amalgamation of Silk Bank Limited (SILK) with and into United Bank Limited (UBL). UBL, one of the ...

Scanning electron microscopy images of fibers from engineered spider silk. To validate their computational findings, the Northwestern team used spectroscopy techniques to examine how the protein ...

By simulating spider silk in a computational model, the team discovered the stretching process aligns the protein chains within the fibers and increases the number of bonds between those chains ...

When spiders spin their webs, they use their hind legs to pull silk threads from their spinnerets. This pulling action doesn't just help the spider release the silk, it's also a crucial step in ...

Understanding how the stretching process strengthens spider silk is a key part of helping design stronger, biodegradable, silk-inspired materials for various applications. When spiders spin their webs ...