Tiny spider 'digitally dissected'
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A 53-million-year-old spider is revealed in exquisite detail by scientists from the UK and Belgium.
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Scientists discover how the skin of the fingertips protects itself against a common bug that causes diarrhoea.
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Tiny metallic rods have been turned into miniature "propellers" by a Canadian research team.
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LASER technology is helping researchers at Otago University understand more about the wily brown trout.
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Scientists investigating the icy waters of Antarctica said Tuesday they have collected mysterious creatures including giant sea spiders and huge worms in the murky depths.
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U.S., Canadian and British scientists have created a new way of determining how extinct species moved that's independent of analyses of limb structure.
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Compact kit for the thumb-generation
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A new digital authentication technique supplies forensic art experts with a new tool to distinguish paintings by masters from those by imitators, scientists say.
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Researchers create digital paper that emits recorded sound in response to a user's touch.
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As mass-produced artificial spider silk looks more and more feasible, scientists speculate on possible applications: body armor, sutures, and more.
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Does whatever a spider-gecko can An Italian boffin claims to have made a breakthrough in the red-hot field of gecko-related nanoengineering, perhaps of a magnitude that might allow working spiderman suits to be built.â¦
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As many security firms feared, the source code of the dreaded Cabir virus has been posted on the Internet. This means we just might have seen the tip of the iceberg of possible variants being noticed in the wild.
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Huge databases that generate Web site content on the fly can be the bane of search engine spiders' existence. They can't find pages; they can't see URLs. So they can't index pages.
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US biologists hope to make super-strong materials after identifying the genes behind the black widow spider's silk.
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Also: Molecular 'extension cord' for chemical computing. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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MINNEAPOLIS - The itsy bitsy spider came crawling out of Dottie Brown's kitchen sink, but she was just happy it didn't happen while she was eating the grapes that carried the black widow into her home. "If that thing had come crawling out then," Brown said.
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From post-coital cannibalism to love at first sight, the sex life of the African jumping spider is full of surprises, according to a new study.