Different species of spiders produce different silks that serve different purposes, from floating on air to cradling eggs.

The triangle weaver spider, Hyptiotes cavatus, weaves and holds a three-sided web under tension, which it releases the moment prey flies into the web. Jessica Garb and colleagues sequenced the genome ...

cIAP1 undergoes a dramatic conformational change during activation that is now shown to be due to the dynamic and metastable nature of the closed form of the enzyme. The discovery of such a striking ...

Different species of spiders produce different silks that serve different purposes, from floating on air to cradling eggs. The triangle weaver spider ...

When filaree seeds ripen and burst, they are launched with an inbuilt spring. Scientists have now discovered that the inbuilt spring stores energy as the seed head dries and can flick the seed as far ...

The Galaxy Note 5 has a novel new S-Pen slot design. The Pen inserts flush into the body, and a spring-loaded mechanism ejects it. As Android Police discovered (and we just had to try, too), the new ...