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

Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy for the spiders' tiny muscles to support.

So, Spider-Man capabilities when ... anyone who has read his paper and thinks they might be in need of a web-shooting silk fiber. A few months after he published his work on the underwater ...

The result is an astonishingly "Spider Man"-like silk that can be shot not unlike the superhero's wrist-mounted web shooters, as detailed in a paper published in the journal Advanced Functional ...

Man's premiere on Disney+ covered Peter Parker's origin story and might have teased another hero's origin too.

They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...

Some spiders hunt and kill snakes up to 30 times their size. A study revealed 319 cases of such incidents involving over 40 ...

Those living in São Thomé das Letras in Brazil got to see a "rain of spiders", when the Parawixia bistriata creates an ...

Funnel-webs are a bit more pronounced than a trapdoor. "The spinnerets [silk-making organs], usually you won't see on a trapdoor. There's also other spiders that you can still see the spinner ...

Beautifully symmetrical in their design, these webs are made out of silk. They are both very strong and elastic, with a capacity to bear loads far greater than the spider itself. When a snake is ...