Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy for the spiders' tiny muscles to support.

Researchers at Tufts University’s Silklab have developed a silk-based sticky fluid that instantly turns into a fibrous material when ejected, evoking the gravity-defying, web-slinging powers of the ...

Scientists at the University of Queensland have been studying the venom of the K'gari funnel web spider, an arachnid native to Australia.

Marvel Animation's Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man has been spotlighted at New York Comic Con with artwork that offers ...

Credit: Marco Lo Presti/Tufts University/Cover Images Scientists have engineered a new material that mimics Spider-Man's ...

Tufts University researchers have created a web-slinging material that solidifies mid-air, lifting objects up to 80 times its ...

These 37 creative, no-carve pumpkin decorating ideas use paint, fabric, and other craft supplies to make your pumpkin for ...

I spend too many hours now in my backyard drawing birds. I should be writing. I should be doing other things. I’m now sitting ...

In the years since that event, Eddie has used the King in Black title to go through some convoluted evolutions and start a new superhero team, all while passing the proper mantle of Venom onto his son ...

Researchers at Tufts University have developed a new technology making Spider-Man’s web-slinging a reality. The device can ...