Smithsonian Magazine3 年
Ask Smithsonian: How Do Spiders Make a Web?
How do spiders make such intricate webs? Don’t get too tangled up about it. In this one-minute video, our Ask Smithsonian host, Eric Schulze, weaves his way to the answer. Explore Subscribe ...
Natural History Museum%2c London1 年
What are spider webs made of? And how do they spin them?
Find out how web-spinning spiders do what they do and learn about the impressive, multipurpose material they use to catch their dinner. Spiders make their webs from silk, a natural fibre made of ...
Business Insider5 年
An old NASA study gave spiders drugs to see how it affected their webs
A NASA article from 1995 shows just how toxic caffeine is to the brain. Researchers exposed spiders to a range of different chemicals — including caffeine, marijuana, and Benzedrine — and ...
Business Insider India5 年
An old NASA study gave spiders drugs to see how it affected their webs, and it'll make you ...
The scientific benefits - and disadvantages - of coffee are well-researched. But how much do we know about how the brain functions under the influence of caffeine? A NASA study from 1995 looked ...