While cobwebs and spider webs are both marvels of nature, they have distinct characteristics and purposes. So, the next time you spot a web, take a moment to appreciate its beauty and ponder its type.

Millions of years ago, a few spiders abandoned the kind of round webs that the word “spiderweb” calls to mind and started to focus on a new strategy. Before, they would wait for prey to become ...

You may want to think twice before vacuuming up any pesky cobwebs you find around your home -- these messy spider lairs may contain valuable information (valuable to scientists, that is). A spider's ...

(Phys.org)—While the common house spider may be creepy, it also has been inspiring researchers to find new and better ways to develop adhesives for human applications such as wound healing and ...

Think that cobweb in the corner looks like a haphazard collection of silk threads? Take a closer look -- preferably with a scanning electron microscope. It’s long been known that spiders use a variety ...

Polymer scientists and biologists have discovered that a house spider -- in order to more efficiently capture different types of prey -- performs an uncommon feat. It tailors one glue to demonstrate ...

If Miss Muffet in the children’s nursery rhyme had known more about garden spiders, she might not have been so frightened. Spiders are beneficial garden inhabitants that are much more interested in ...

I can still vividly recall the first spider web I watched being spun in earnest, in the unlikely setting of an industrial estate in Central London. While taking a break from a tedious data-entry job, ...

One of the web-spinning black widows used in the study and its prey, the house cricket. You may want to think twice before vacuuming up any pesky cobwebs you find around your home — these messy spider ...