A collaborator asked him to analyze a toxin found in the venom of Australia’s deadly funnel-web spider. The work led to clues about the toxin’s function, a paper in Nature Structural and ...
Season: all year round. Usually found outdoors on walls, fencing and clutter around the garden, but most common in homes in autumn when males leave their webs to search for female spiders. Also common ...
Adult females are 6-7 mm long (ignoring legs), and males are 3.5-5 mm long. The spiders have a silver-grey coloured abdomen with a brown oak leaf pattern on the back. The legs are dark brown with ...
The regularity of the delicate structures made by spiders is one of the wonders of nature. Now abnormalities in these patterns are used to study the mechanism by which drugs produce their effects ...
Black widows are solitary year-round except during this violent mating ritual. These spiders spin large webs in which females suspend a cocoon with hundreds of eggs. Spiderlings disperse soon ...
Scientists discovered that these spiders aren't just relying on sight. They're actually listening for their prey.
In the rare instance where an insect's name truly epitomizes its nature ... rendering their webs a unique, albeit unruly, ...
Giant filaments crisscross the universe, connecting galaxy clusters like superhighways between cities. Their shape and ...
The tiny ray spider uses launches its web to grab its prey out of the air. Though common practice in the superhero world, ...
If you've noticed an increase in webs appearing around your neighborhood, there's no need to call Spider-Man. What you're ...
What do spiders’ webs, snowflakes and snail shells have in common? They all contain fractals: Nature’s exquisite, endlessly ...