In a quiet barn, master handloom weaver Deborah White is attempting the difficult task of bringing a 200-year-old Jacquard ...

Spiders don’t just spin webs randomly; their intricate, symmetrical designs are backed by an astonishing evolutionary strategy and geometry. These perfectly constructed traps serve more than one ...

Australia is home to a fascinating spider species known as Walckenaer’s studded triangular spider (Arkys walckenaeri), part of the unique orb-weaving family called Arkyinae. These spiders are ...

Spring is the time when many spiders emerge from their winter hiding places and start doing what they do best: spinning webs.

Spiders are known to learn about predators, prey, potential mates, and their overall environment from vibrations carried by their webs. Funnel-weaving spiders in particular connect their webs to ...

The new study, conducted by researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, shows the webs of funnel-weaving spiders transmit vibrations differently in response to increased local noise. Spiders ...

Of All the Characters on The Wheel of Time, Moghedien Has Us Gasping and Scratching Our Heads the Most Like a spider, Moghedien has been crawling behind the scenes, weaving her web and doing ...

Orb-weaver spider. Image by KHBlack via Depositphotos. Orb-weaver Spiders are named for their distinctive wheel-shaped webs, which are engineering marvels of tensile strength and elasticity. These ...