Last December, in the quiet week between Christmas and January, I walked a few blocks to my office and put away the holiday decorations for another year. I knew the place would be empty on that ...

Spider-Man: Brand New Day wrapped filming last month, and while reshoots are scheduled to take place in the coming months, some crew merchandise is now doing the rounds on social media. Featuring a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 6—Early February, mid-winter, is one time of the year when we don't expect to see spiders. Walking on mild days, we might ...

Scientists have uncovered a 400-million-year-old genetic secret that gave spiders the ability to produce silk and weave their webs. Spiders didn't begin their journey on Earth in the same way as they ...

A giant funnel-web spider, named Hemsworth, has been recognized as the largest of its kind ever recorded by the Australian Reptile Park. Found in Newcastle, about 120 kilometers north of Sydney, this ...

Scientists are using spider silk to help develop surgical devices for nerve regeneration. "It acts like a scaffold for nerves to grow along like a rose on a trellis," Dr Alex Woods explains, holding ...

Scientists may have just determined the worst place in the world for arachnophobes. In a network of caverns below the Greek-Albanian border known simply as Sulfur Cave (already sounds like a charming ...