Smithsonian Magazine6d
Getting Annoyed at Your Noisy Neighbor? Spiders Are, Too. New Research Finds They’ll Build Webs Differently in Loud Conditions
In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders ...
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Insect and spider biodiversity increases organic nutrient availability across ecosystems, large-scale study shows
Insects and spiders are important elements in the food webs of aquatic and terrestrial ... this knowledge gap with a new study published in Science. More than 700 land and water ecosystems ...
Business Insider4y
What makes spider silk so special, and how science can learn from it
Narrator: A spider's web is more than just a spider's house ... The next step is actually using it. More from Science ...
The New York Times9d
Everyone in the City Needs Soundproofing, Even Spiders
Researchers have found evidence that a common North American spider species alters its webs to deal with urban ... come up with a solution for finding food and mates despite their big city problems.
Science Daily24d
Stretching spider silk makes it stronger
When they weave their webs, spiders pull their silk threads ... The study will be published on Friday (March 7) in the journal Science Advances. "Researchers already knew this stretching, or ...