I said, ‘Why don’t we start another interesting challenge: making the Spidey adhesive,’ and here we are.” Lo Presti is both a ...

When a US research lab accidentally created a sticky, web-like substance, it turned to Peter Parker and comic-book lore for ...

Tufts University biotech researcher Marco Lo Presti accidentally discovered a "remote adhesive" that acts like Spider-Man ...

Spider webs are made from a protein fiber which we call silk. It is both strong and stretchy but not all spider silk is the same, there are several different types. Spiders produce silk using special ...

Perhaps the most famous group of spiders that construct funnel-shaped webs is the Australian funnel-web spiders. There are 36 of them and some are dangerous as they produce a fast-acting and ...

According to a new paper in the journal BMC Ecology and Evolution ... The Newcastle funnel-web spider, Atrax christenseni, the most venomous spider in the world. This spider species was originally ...

Materials like car tires, human tissues, and spider webs are diverse in composition, but all contain networks of ...

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man has finally swung onto Disney+ so our Spidey experts have been on an Easter egg hunt.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man ( YFNSM) has finally made its debut on Disney Plus. The first two episodes of the ...

The 'classic' Sydney funnel-web spider on the (left) and newly-identified Newcastle funnel-web variant 'Big Boy'. Picture: Kane Christensen In early January the Park received a spider named ...

Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world's deadliest. The new funnel-web species has earned the nickname "Big Boy ...

Nicknamed 'big boy', it can grow up to 9cm (3.54 inches) compared with 5cm (1.97 inches) for the more common Sydney funnel-web. "This particular spider is a lot larger, its venom glands are a lot ...