The age of cloak-and-dagger espionage is long gone. Today's spy doesn't wear a trench coat or sneak across borders — they ...

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 ...

The long-standing mystery around why spider webs sometimes feature "extra touches" known as stabilimenta has been revisited in a new study which ...

The long-standing mystery around why spider webs sometimes feature "extra touches" known as stabilimenta has been revisited ...

Scientists offer a new idea for why orb-weaving arachnids add decorations known as stabilimenta to their webs.

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have discovered a new species of trapdoor spider lurking in California's ...

Spiders’ webs come in all shapes and sizes, from funnel webs to sheet webs and the classic orb web – the sort you imagine for ...

Learn and watch how the incredible wheel spider escapes parasitic wasps in the desert by cartwheeling down slopes.

RIT researchers have revealed a new view of the Red Spider Nebula, as featured in ‘The Astrophysical Journal’ and by the ...