Since the Industrial Revolution, human activity has led to a surge in environmental noise. The sounds of traffic, airplanes, construction and more clutter the outdoor soundscape, challenging animals' ...

The silk is liquid when it's inside the spider.' Before it is extruded out of the spinneret, cribellate silk first passes through a sieve-like structure called the cribellum. Spiders that make this ...

Unlike the majority of spiders, which dwell on land, the diving bell spider spends most of its life underwater. It is the ...

The researchers found that funnel-weaving spiders alter how their silk webs transmit vibrations in response to local noise.

An American and a Japanese were among people who helped identify the mystery spider sac photographed by a Singaporean. Read more at straitstimes.com.

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Researchers don’t know enough about spider silk structure and composition to understand why it possesses such superior mechanical properties. For ...