What you're looking at here is the aftermath of a sun-like star that eventually reached the end of its life and poofed out ...

Ever walked past a spider’s web and noticed it’s got zigzags woven through it? Congratulations! You have observed ...

Every year, spiders kill about 20 people worldwide. That’s fewer than scorpions, lightning strikes, or hippos—and a tiny ...

The purpose of stabilimenta within the web is unclear. They could help collect water, regulate a spider’s body temperature, ...

Embellishments called stabilimenta helped propagate waves along simulated spider webs when prey landed on them, shedding new ...

Spiders are famous aesthetes. Many craft radially symmetric webs, first extruding long silken spokes and then spinning ...

Researchers simulated the effects that different web decorations had on vibrations, adding fresh insight to a decades-old ...

Since the Sundance premiere of 'Kiss of the Spider Woman,' the parallels between the fraught political climate of 1970s ...