Peter Parker's ingenious invention is more than gadgetry—it's central to what makes Spider-Man a genius hero.

Flung prey can reach speeds of up to 14.4 feet per second, or a little less than ten miles per hour. An insect will land in the spider's main web about a foot above the spring-loaded trap ...

The ballista spider builds sophisticated spring-loaded snares to catapult its prey. Newly discovered, the ballista spider ...

Spotting a spider web stretching from one side to the other seems impossible, yet this is exactly what Darwin's bark spider ...

Scientists discovered that the Australian “ballista spider” uses a silk cone trap to catapult prey into its web, a feat of spider engineering never before observed.

For many people, the sight — or even the thought — of a spider in a spider web gives them the chills. Even without full-on arachnophobia, the prospect of bumping into a spider web in your yard or ...

In China, the arachnids seem to somehow manipulate the flashing of a caught male firefly to resemble a female’s come-hither signal. Once this spider gets a firefly ...

The long-standing mystery around why spider webs sometimes feature "extra touches" known as stabilimenta has been revisited in a new study which suggests that their wave-propagation effects could help ...

In the dense forests of the Ecuadorian Andes, the survival of a spider relies not only on its ability to prey on insects but ...

No matter how thoroughly you clean your home, spider webs sometimes seem to reappear within just a few days. You remove them ...

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