The long-standing mystery around why spider webs sometimes feature "extra touches" known as stabilimenta has been revisited ...
The purpose of stabilimenta within the web is unclear. They could help collect water, regulate a spider’s body temperature, ...
Researchers simulated the effects that different web decorations had on vibrations, adding fresh insight to a decades-old ...
Embellishments called stabilimenta helped propagate waves along simulated spider webs when prey landed on them, shedding new ...
The global crisis of diminishing biological diversity is challenging our current ability to monitor changes in ecosystems.
Many spider species build spiral wheel-shaped webs – orb webs – to capture prey, and some incorporate so-called “stabilimenta ...
As the spookiest day of the year approaches, residents on Stanhope Road in Darlington have decked out their homes in ...
If you'd like to create a more elegant-looking Halloween decoration for inside your home, you might like to DIY this stunning ...
This new James Webb Space Telescope image features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537–the Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), JWST has revealed never-before-seen details in ...
A new study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology has found that leg loss doesn’t slow tarantulas almost at all.
Kobe University's proof-of-concept for quantum game theory allows users to explore how their strategies interfere.