Their webs connect to various surfaces – trees, rocks, or buildings – capable of transmitting the vibratory noise created by traffic, industrial activities ... that spiders from urban areas tended to ...

Urban noise such as from traffic, aeroplanes and construction is forcing some spiders to weave “soundproof webbing” that transmits vibrations differently, a new study reveals. Noise pollution from ...

Spiders are known to learn about predators, prey, potential mates, and their overall environment from vibrations carried by their webs. Funnel-weaving spiders in particular connect their webs to ...

Urban noise is forcing some spiders to weave “soundproof webbing” that transmits vibrations differently, a new study reveals. Noise pollution from human activity continues to challenge the ...

It is about the length of a fingernail and feeds on insects trapped in spider webs. “Only 0.13 per cent of all caterpillars on the planet are carnivorous,” says Rubinoff. “So it is ...

As an eight-legged fight creeps to the surface, meet the three new symbiotes who could put the Spiders at the edge of their webs! Which of them has what it takes? Could it be the devious Venomouse?

In a landmark achievement, the diagram also details the activity of individual neurons on a large scale ― a neuroscience first. The high-resolution 3D map contains more than 200,000 brain cells ...