April 27 -- The itsy-bitsy spider went up the water spout, goes the nursery rhyme. But how exactly does the spider climb such a slippery vertical surface? Now scientists think they have the answer — ...

Two weeks ago, when New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole didn’t deny using Spider Tack to increase his spin on pitches, it was a big day in baseball. Clips of him sputtering through an interminable ...

While most major league pitchers use some sort of grip enhancer to improve spin rates, there’s one sticky substance many of them feel is a step too far. “Get Spider Tack out of the game and I don’t ...

HOUSTON – (July XX, 2022) – Spiders are amazing. They’re useful even when they’re dead. Rice University mechanical engineers are showing how to repurpose deceased spiders as mechanical grippers that ...

If you think dead spider robots are something straight out of a horror movie (or your worst nightmares), I have some news for you. Mechanical engineers from Rice University have actually turned spider ...

The first full trailer for Sony’s upcoming animated “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” feature was released on Wednesday, introducing Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales as the new web-crawler. In the ...

When a spider crawled into the corner of a research lab at Rice University in Houston, Texas and curled up to die, it surely never imagined that it would become the inspiration for researchers’ mad ...

Producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller revealed new characters and showed off some funny unfinished footage of the multi-spider-person animated feature “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” Friday during ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...