After decades of trying, scientists may have finally found a way to make body armor out of spider silk. Aside from being very cool, this would mean ultra-lightweight, super-strong, flexible body armor ...

The black-and-yellow argiope is a particularly attractive and large species of orb-weaving spider. It is the largest orb weaver in the garden. Actually, only the female is large, the males being much ...

It helps to know a little about the brown recluse to fully understand the discovery about what makes the silk of this particular spider so strong. An international collaboration between William & Mary ...