His passion is music and he gets a chance to hit the big time. An old friend Jack Spider recently escaped from prison, driven by greed, drags our hero back to a life he thought he had left behind.

Mariella is an assistant editor at The Scientist. She has a background in neuroscience, and her work has appeared in Drug Discovery News and Massive Science.

These spiders are unwitting helpers in a plan to set a trap for their own kind. The key to that trap: an irresistible spiderweb perfume. To try to control unwanted redback spiders, a team of ...

The trapdoor spider is one of the sneakiest hunters in the arachnid world. These clever spiders are named for their unique hunting strategy: They build burrows with hinged "doors" made of soil and ...

The Spiders, carrying a five-game losing streak rooted in scoring problems, tried something new at George Washington Wednesday night. They turned up the tempo, hoisted 19 3-pointers in the first half, ...

Funny thing about Venus flytraps: They don't usually trap flies. In fact, winged insects only make up 5% of their diet. Sorenson: We really ought to be calling it the Carolina spider trap.

The trapdoor spider is one of the sneakiest hunters in the arachnid world. These clever spiders are named for their unique hunting strategy: They build burrows with hinged "doors" made of soil and ...

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) has spotted six galaxies trapped in a web around a supermassive black hole that’s just under one billion light-years away ...