Have you ever entered a seldom-used room, only to be met by an unexpected web clinging to your face? Or perhaps during an early morning walk, you’ve paused to admire the delicate artistry of a web, ...

It’s spider season, and for some, it’s a daunting experience to get rid of spiders when they find their way inside your home. Although you can take precautions to stop them from entering by spraying ...

Millions of years ago, a few spiders abandoned the kind of round webs that the word “spiderweb” calls to mind and started to focus on a new strategy. Before, they would wait for prey to become ...

You may want to think twice before vacuuming up any pesky cobwebs you find around your home -- these messy spider lairs may contain valuable information (valuable to scientists, that is). A spider's ...

Think that cobweb in the corner looks like a haphazard collection of silk threads? Take a closer look -- preferably with a scanning electron microscope. It’s long been known that spiders use a variety ...

The key is to move the spider to another, less-annoying-to-you indoor location, with one exception: Spiders that make cob, ...

Polymer scientists and biologists have discovered that a house spider -- in order to more efficiently capture different types of prey -- performs an uncommon feat. It tailors one glue to demonstrate ...

A soccer field in New Zealand turned into a playground for spiders on Sunday. — -- It's something that might give those with arachnophobia the heebie-jeebies. A soccer field in New Zealand turned ...