Grab a wooden picnic table, order a Piña Colada or a cold beer, and pick from a menu of mainstay island fare: oxtail stew, ...

Car manufacturers are trialing spider-silk bioleather in seats and interior components, probing the hard limits of automotive-grade performance.

High above the rivers of Madagascar, a small arachnid is quietly rewriting what I thought was possible in nature. The ...

The Darwin’s bark spider silk has a tensile strength of around 1.6 gigapascals, several times stronger than structural iron, ...

An ancient ancestor of spiders and relatives doubled its genome about 400 million years ago, setting the stage for the ...

A spider no larger than a coin has upended what scientists thought they knew about natural materials. Discovered in the wilds ...