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Fear can distort our perceptions, psychological research indicates, and creepy-crawly spiders are no different. People who are afraid of spiders see the arachnids as bigger than they actually are, recent experiments have shown. 
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A team of MIT researchers who recently examined spider webs says the amazing work of nature could improve various human systems, including Internet security and how buildings are designed. Pound-for-pound, the silk which spiders spin is stronger than steel yet it retains a flexibility that is very 'flaw-tolerant'. If one section of the web malfunctions, i.e. is torn away by a bug, the larger integrity of the structure remains. This may help encourage engineers to examine the use of more complex materials when making new designs.
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"In a lab at the University of Wyoming, some silkworms are spinning cocoons of silk, just as every silkworm has done for millions of years...".
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Female orb-web spiders that eat their tiny male mates after copulation, called sexual cannibalism, have more, larger babies that survive longer than females prevented from eating their mates.
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If you're a red-headed guy with eight bulging eyes and a unibrow, size does indeed matter for getting the girl.
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Male nursery web spiders (Pisaura mirabilis) prepare silk-wrapped gifts to give to potential mates. Most gifts contain insects, but some gifts are inedible plant seeds or empty exoskeletons left after the prey has already been eaten (presumably by the male himself!).
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One of Britain's rarest spiders has been brought back from the brink of extinction by conservationists.
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Sex can be dangerous, even deadly if your partner has plans to eat you.
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The smallest of nine species in a study had smaller brains in absolute terms, but relatively speaking, their brains were enormous.
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Tiny hunting spiders can not only watch your every move, but they can feel those moves, and that of their prey, through the air. But how they do it, exactly, has puzzled researchers for decades.
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Smithsonian researchers report that the brains of tiny spiders are so large that they fill their body cavities and overflow into their legs.
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Male nursery web spiders lure mates with silk-wrapped offerings, only some of which contain tasty treats. Cynthia Graber reports.
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