A few weeks ago, I resurrected a fly pattern that you’ll probably recognize if you are among that group of now middle-aged fly fishers who took up the sport in the 1970s. We called it the “spider.” ...

A new study reveals the likely origin of a mysterious spider-like pattern first spotted on Jupiter's moon Europa in 1998. The ...

On the frozen surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa, a sprawling, spider-like mark has become one of the most puzzling features in ...

An eye-catching pattern on the surface of Europa, an ice-covered moon, may have profound implications for our understanding ...

The Journal of Arachnology, Vol. 24, No. 1 (1996), pp. 24-33 (10 pages) Based on the pattern of movement used during the search for prey, predators can generally be placed into one of two categories: ...

Archaeologists working on the Danish island of Bornholm discovered around 300 rocks engraved during the Stone Age. But archaeologists have no idea what the rocks may represent. The rocks are ...

Every year Halloween enthusiasts adorn their homes with synthetic cobwebs. But humans aren’t the only creatures who decorate their abodes. Spiders bedeck their webs with “stabilimenta”—various woven ...

Using a new mathematical methodology, researchers have created a scientifically rigorous analogy showing the similarities between the physical structure of spider silk and the sonic structure of a ...