SPIDER SILK! This kid is trusting his life to a flimsy-looking strand of arachnid goo! But it turns out if Peter's web is anything like real spider silk, then his web-slinging antics are more ...

but the Swedish bridge spider produces eight varieties of silk. To narrow their investigation, they focused on the major silk type, which makes up the radial threads of the web. Using mass ...

‘Most spiders have poor eyesight and rely almost exclusively on the vibration of the silk in their web for sensory information,’ said Beth Mortimer of the Oxford Silk Group who led the ...

Narrator: A spider's web is more than just a spider's house. This homemade, glistening material has some spidey strength of its own. Spider silk is tougher than Kevlar, more flexible than nylon ...

What happens when an unfortunate bug ends up in a spider’s web? It gets bitten and wrapped in silk, and becomes a meal. But if the web belongs to an orb-weaver and the bug is a male firefly ...

The best microphone in the world might have an unexpected source: spider silk. Spiders weave webs to trap their insect snacks ...

Wow. Now, the plan is to find ways to do something with the mass-producible silk. We love the idea of growing tough-as-nails cargo pants or black widow web-shooters. Spider senses not included.

Spiders like to eat bugs, and this one has caught a woodlouse. Most spiders like to live on a web. They make the web out of strong silk. Spinning the web from silk takes a spider quite a long time.