The new fungus, Gibellula attenboroughii, found in Northern Ireland, has been officially recognized by scientists in a recent ...

In a new study, Newtown and his colleagues identified DNA from 93 different vertebrates on spider webs in Perth, Australia. The findings were published last week the journal iScience. The study is ...

Spiders, their venom and their silk pose many unsolved questions for science. A new study provides clues to better understand ...

Mariella is an assistant editor at The Scientist. She has a background in neuroscience, and her work has appeared in Drug Discovery News and Massive Science.

Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different populations of the Sydney funnel-web spider – one ...

Spider-Man: Edge of Time boasts a wonderful deuteragonist dynamic that Insomniac may be too late to impart unto Marvel's ...

Dr Helen Smith, an arachnologist (spider biologist) at the Australian Museum and one of the authors of the study suggested ...

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man finally made its series debut on Wednesday morning, with the first two episodes of its ...

No, it's not a comic. Researchers in the USA made a huge breakthrough when they inserted a spider gene into the DNA of goats. It meant the goats produced milk containing an extra protein ...