Spiders don’t have great eyesight. They use vibrations from their web to detect what’s happening in their environment. Spiders can’t speak, either. To communicate, their web serves as a complex set of ...

Ross Hatton was one of those kids who was fascinated by the creatures from which the rest of us recoil. Think spiders and snakes. He lobbied his mom for permission to keep them as pets, and though she ...

We know spider silk carries some amazing capabilities, with its light weight, incredible elasticity and a status as one of nature's strongest materials. Scientists have made another extraordinary ...

CAMBRIDGE (CBS) -- Scientists at MIT have created music using a spider web. Researchers worked with an artist to get laser scans of a web, then used virtual reality to create a harp-like instrument to ...