Movies have always played up the mad scientist trope, but real-life labs have carried out experiments that make fiction look ...

Look no further than Shelbyville, Kentucky – a town where retirees aren’t just surviving on Social Security; they’re thriving with enough left over for the occasional splurge on fancy coffee and ...

Researchers may have discovered the world's biggest spider web, a massive subterranean structure spanning over 100 square ...

It might sound like the opening of a particularly skin-crawling horror story, but to a team of researchers venturing into ...

Different species of spiders produce different silks that serve different purposes, from floating on air to cradling eggs. The triangle weaver spider, Hyptiotes cavatus, weaves and holds a three-sided ...

F or decades, arachnologists debated the actual purpose of stabilimenta, a special thread spiders weave into their webs. Now, ...

In a dank cave below the Albanian-Greek border, scientists have uncovered a spider web that’s technically big enough to catch ...

The triangle weaver spider, Hyptiotes cavatus, weaves and holds a three-sided web under tension, which it releases the moment prey flies into the web. Jessica Garb and colleagues sequenced the genome ...

Cavers found an “extraordinary,” first-of-its-kind spider colony in a cave along the Albania-Greece border, photos show and a study said. Photo from Marek Audy via Urák, Vrenozi, Głąbiak, Lecoquierre, ...

There have been odder page-to-stage, stage-to-screen, screen-to-song-and-dance-extravaganza case studies than Kiss of the Spider Woman, which began life as Argentine writer Manuel Puig’s 1976 novel ...

A Mobile late-night sports bar that police say has been a chronic source of crime could soon lose its business license. Phat Tuesday Sports Bar on St. Stephens Road has been the subject of 100 police ...