It helps to know a little about the brown recluse to fully understand the discovery about what makes the silk of this particular spider so strong. An international collaboration between William & Mary ...

{{youtube:medium|Ok1p7zfjeVA}} Rabbit, a brown-recluse spider, is fastened to the proverbial treadmill in Hannes Schniepp’s Nanomaterials & Imaging lab. She is restrained but relaxed. Her spinnerets ...

One of the most feared spiders in North America might soon be known for something other than its notoriously nasty venom: really strange silk. The brown recluse spider spins a silk unlike any other ...

Spider silk is often touted as some of the strongest material on Earth: According to some calculations, it can be up to five times stronger than steel cable of similar weight—though that comparison is ...

The American brown recluse spider is already known for being one of the most venomous arachnids on the planet. It turns out, however, that the spider also has unusually strong silk – stronger even ...

A rare textile made from the silk of more than a million wild spiders goes on display today at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. To produce this unique golden cloth, 70 people ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Two spiders whose habitats used to be only in the tropics or coastal regions of the southern United States have made a move into central Alabama and northward. One is the ...

Out on Pembroke Field, a group of 20 students and community members gathered around with one mission in mind. With a ten second countdown, the group counted in unison, lifting a makeshift plastic pipe ...