NASAs 1995 study revealed that chemicals like caffeine and cannabis can radically disrupt spider web-building, offering a ...

While you might think that we've learned all we need to from feeding spiders illegal drugs, people working at NASA in the 1990s disagreed. In 1995, scientists from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center ...

Spider web construction is a blend of biology, art, and engineering. Surprisingly, this spider silk has been around for at least 350 million years, with some estimates suggesting spiders and ...

The molecule, a small protein called Hi1a, mimics one made by Australian funnel-web spiders. It works by preventing heart tissue from becoming too acidic during a heart attack.

That flashy female was in fact another male firefly, himself trapped in the web, and the spider may have manipulated his light beacon to lure you in. This high-stakes drama plays out nightly in ...