Giant communal webs have appeared around the world. Find out what species builds them and how they benefit from teamwork.

Stories describing what can happen when science is manipulated or misapplied are among the winners of the 2025 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards. Winning journalists also did stories on science at ...

Not a crowded trail where you’re playing leapfrog with other hikers, but genuine, blissful solitude among towering trees and pristine ponds. That’s what awaits you at Connecticut’s largest state ...

For decades, arachnologists debated the actual purpose of stabilimenta, a special thread spiders weave into their webs. Now, Italian researchers have finally cracked the case. They ventured into the ...

What happens when a tractor sits untouched for years? This video documents the surprising moment we uncovered a machine completely full of spider webs and the long process of cleaning it out. Zootopia ...

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 ...

Two new species of bird-dropping crab spiders have been discovered in Malaysia and the Philippines, according to a study. Polina Koroleva Unsplash A scientist has discovered two new species of crab ...

PHILADELPHIA — It’s easy to forget sometimes that Eagles wide receiver DeVonta Smith is one of the most talented players at his position in the NFL. For the past four years, most of the attention and ...

A massive AWS outage Monday that brought down some of the world’s most popular apps and services all started with a glitch. The bug – which occurred when two automated systems were trying to update ...

For residents of the southeastern United States, fall signals the return of Joro spiders—huge, bright yellow arachnids from Asia—haunting porches, gardens, and just about anywhere big enough for ...