Spider silk can create lenses useful for biological imaging
Spiders—what are they good for? The answer, it turns out, is more than just insect control.
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Spider baby boom in a warmer Arctic
Climate change leads to longer growing seasons in the Arctic. A new study, which has just been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, show that predators like wolf spiders respond to the changing conditions and ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 25, 2020
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New spider species named after Greta
Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg can add to her list of personal accolades, including TIME magazine's Person of the Year, a group of spiders named after her.
Ecology
Jun 12, 2020
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The benefits of being social, from a spider's perspective
A new study has found that spiders that live in groups benefit from each other's company in unexpected ways.
Plants & Animals
May 20, 2020
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Wolf spiders may turn to cannibalism in a warming Arctic
Wolf spiders in a warming Arctic are getting bigger, reproducing more and eating different foods. Including other spiders.
Plants & Animals
May 5, 2020
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Following the insect meltdown, numbers of orb web spiders have drastically declined
The abundance of large orb web spiders in the Swiss midland has declined drastically over the last 40 years. The main reason for this is the shrinking food supply available to these insectivorous animals. This is demonstrated ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 23, 2020
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Spider combs tame unruly nanofibers
Cribellate spiders spin thousands of tiny nanofibers into sticky threads. To keep from getting caught in their own webs, these spiders use a nonstick comb on their back legs. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Applied Nano ...
Nanomaterials
Apr 22, 2020
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Untangling the social lives of spiders
The idea of a complex spider society—in which thousands of spiders live, hunt, and raise their young together in a single colony—is unsettling to many of us. We are perhaps lucky then that this scene is relatively rare ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 31, 2020
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Orb-weaver spiders' yellow and black pattern helps them lure prey
Being inconspicuous might seem the best strategy for spiders to catch potential prey in their webs, but many orb-web spiders, which hunt in this way, are brightly coloured. New research finds their distinct yellow and black ...
Ecology
Feb 11, 2020
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SPIDER mission will assemble and manufacture a communications antenna in space
It has been suggested that if humanity truly wants to embark on a renewed era of space exploration, one of the key ingredients is the ability to manufacture structures in space. By assembling everything from satellites to ...
Space Exploration
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