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 ...

Thanks to Tufts researchers, there’s now a solution that shoots, solidifies and even picks up objects. Alas, you can’t use it ...

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 ...

Comics and science have officially collided in the real world, as Marco Lo Presti has inadvertently brought Spider-Man’s ...

Tufts University biotech researcher Marco Lo Presti accidentally discovered a "remote adhesive" that acts like Spider-Man ...

which makes up the radial threads of the web. Using mass spectrometry, the team identified 18 proteins in the major silk fibers, including six not previously linked to spider silk. Although the team ...

‘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 ...

Not all silk is used for making webs, some spiders use it as a drag line. Others create parachutes for travel over larger distances. There are seven broad categories of web and they are not all ...

He aims to modify a strain of yeast to produce spider silk. Charlotte’s Web didn’t go into great detail about the different types of silk that a spider can produce, but the video and screencap ...

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

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.