For many people, spiders are the stuff of nightmares, but do spiders actually have nightmares (or any type of dreams) themselves? That is what researchers wanted to know when they set out on a 2022 ...

If you're scared of spiders, Halloween certainly doesn't help. People decorate their homes with monstrous-looking fake cobwebs and horror movies depict giant spiders hunting humans or creeping around ...

Source: Nosferattus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. This time of year, spiders receive a lot of attention for their creepier qualities. But Ximena Nelson, a biologist at the University of Canterbury in ...

Spiders have always lived alongside humans, so it's surprising how much we still don't know about them. One long-standing mystery was related to how spiders detect smells. Now, our latest research has ...

Spring is here, and with the season comes invasive spiders that experts say have spread to a handful of states over the past decade. The spider, called the Joro spider, is native to East Asia and was ...

Watching a spider on a window, I saw it immediately drop like a stone to a ledge when the window was nudged, apparently under the influence of gravity. A minute later, the spider did the whole thing ...