If spider and web are working together as a larger cognitive ... but also interpreting it into some sort of abstract, meaningful representation of the world, which the web—or a tray of Scrabble ...

For long stretches of the year, it's practically a no-go zone on account of the dense webs festooning the joists like sticky blindfolds. In the abstract, I find spiders fascinating. I admire their ...

“Spiders that weave webs often have very poor eyesight ... But he wanted something tangible he could use to translate the abstract language of engineering to a wider audience.

An artificial material with the same elastic, adhesive, self-cleaning, sensing and tensile properties as natural spider silk has been created by researchers in South Korea. The synthetic web, which is ...