Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy for the spiders' tiny muscles to support.

There are big spiders, and then there’s the Newcastle ‘Big Boy.’ First described in the early 2000s, this spider is the ...

The U.S. military is interested in ‘super spiders’ capable of producing silk with extraordinary features. Don’t worry—it ...

But when a giant, neon-yellow spider arrived in the ... stymied a closely related invasive spider species, the golden silk spider, T. clavipes, from inching much farther north than metro Atlanta.

Scientists created the world's first gene-edited spider, which spins webs that glow red under the right lighting conditions.

And it's not something big spiders can do ... A close relative of the Joro, the golden silk spider, can't tolerate the cold. That's why it hasn't spread beyond the Southeast.

The saga of the large invasive Joro spiders that parachute ... stress tests on Joro spiders and their cousin, the golden silk spider. The research, published in Physiological Entomology on Monday ...

This newly developed strain represents the third commercial production line created by Kraig Labs as it executes on its strategy to expand output capacity. The addition of this next-generation ...

CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful gene editing system that has revolutionized our ability to treat disease and probe the human genome. CRISPR has been used to edit the genomes of animals, plants, and microbes ...

Their large stature is mostly for show ... Deciphering visual comparisons between joro spiders and golden silk orb weavers is like trying to spot the differences between two very similar pictures.