Have you ever paused in awe at a glistening spider web stretched between branches after a morning rain? There’s something ...

The abdomen of this spider is usually well-marked with a pattern of whitish spots that form a cross. Females can grow to 1.5cm long. Image courtesy of Pixabay (CC0). A new web takes about two hours to ...

Researchers exposed spiders to a range of different chemicals ... substances — including caffeine — affect spider web patterns. Read more: What happens to your body when you drink too ...

Spiders then follow various patterns of activity to construct their webs, depending on what species it is. It's fascinating to watch. Although webs are the most well-known use for spider silk, not all ...

In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders responded differently ...

The regularity of the delicate structures made by spiders is one of the wonders of nature. Now abnormalities in these patterns are used to study the mechanism by which drugs produce their effects ...