Nestled in the Hurley Gallery at the Lewis Arts Complex is a monochromatic world of spider webs and historical metaphors — a beautifully haunting archive of political warfare. This exhibition, ...

Scientists have uncovered a 400-million-year-old genetic secret that gave spiders the ability to produce silk and weave their webs. Spiders didn't begin their journey on Earth in the same way as they ...

There are many ways that animals take care of their babies, each unique to the needs of the species. One example is the female wolf spider, which carries her egg sac attached to her spinnerets, ...

Spiders are skillful engineers, gifted with amazing planning skills and a material that allows them to precisely design rigorous and functional webs. The material—spider silk—has chemical properties ...

The new animal resembles a spider in having fangs, male pedipalps, four walking legs and silk-producing spinnerets at its rear. However, it also bears a long flagellum or tail. No living spider has a ...

Spinning silk comes second-nature to tarantulas, with uses ranging from protecting their eggs to lining and concealing their nests. Now scientists have discovered another function for silk, used by a ...

The Spinnerets: A Dystopian Mystical Thriller in Three Acts by Douglas DuBrin. The play rivetingly depicts a motley group of life-battered strangers assembled by mysterious captors and tasked with ...