Different species of spiders produce different silks that serve different purposes, from floating on air to cradling eggs. The triangle weaver spider, Hyptiotes cavatus, weaves and holds a three-sided ...

In the summer of 2018, Marco Lo Presti worked on making a strong underwater adhesive using silk fibroin, which can be isolated from silk moth cocoons. While cleaning his glassware with acetone in what ...

A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile species of spider. By Adeel Hassan Even in a pitch-black cave, what appears ...