If you see a small spider in a web that you've identified as belonging to a female golden silk orb weaver, that's likely her male counterpart. Since golden silk orb weavers look particularly ...

Scientists are stumped by the discovery of an unidentified golden egg-like organism while operating a remote deep-sea diving vessel off the coast of Alaska. Researchers said “it’s like the ...

Not only does spider silk combine the useful properties of high tensile strength and extensibility, it can be beautiful in its own right. 'Silk is an amazing material,' says Jan Beccaloni, our ...

On closer inspection a quadrant is always missing, which gives rise to its common name of the missing sector orb web spider. This spider feeds on almost any flying insect captured within its web. As ...

Simulations showed that stretching aligns protein chains and increases hydrogen bonds, which act like tiny bridges between ...

By extruding engineered spider silk proteins and then stretching them by hand, the team has developed artificial fibers similar to threads from the golden silk orb weaver, a large spider with a ...

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Naturally, good science doesn’t happen overnight. There are a few contenders for the strongest spider silk among which the golden silk orb-weaver gets the most attention, but the black widow’s ...

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By extruding engineered spider silk proteins and then stretching them by hand, the team has developed artificial fibers similar to threads from the golden silk orb weaver, a large spider with a ...