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One of nature's mysteries concerns why spiders do not stick to their own webs. Some new research has shown that there are three mechanisms at play, relating to the hairs spiders' legs, the way spiders move, and due to special 'non-stick' coating.
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A researcher at a Japanese university has created violin strings from spider silk, and many people are impressed by the sounds.
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By smuggling hundreds of tarantulas into the United States and other countries, one German man became $300,000 richer. He is now facing a long prison term and a hefty fine.
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Melbourne -
An Australian man, who considers himself a real-life Spiderman, will spend 22 days enclosed in a glass store-front window with hundreds of poisonous spiders to break a record for habitation with arachnids, while raising money for charity.
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A fire destroyed the world's largest collection of spiders, snakes, scorpions and amphibians. Scientists around the world are saddened by the loss of the specimens some of which were collected up to a 100 years ago and irreplaceable.
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You thought your job was tough? How about eating spiders every day for lunch? Well, that is what one man is doing on his lunch break; eating 100 spiders.
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Researchers have confirmed that the fear of spiders begins early with women. Baby girls under the age of one already have the fear of arachnids, according to psychologists at Carnegie Mellon University.
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When you are buying organic grapes at the grocery you may want to make sure that spiders aren't attached to fruit. The spiders are not that nice guys either, their bite could kill.
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Jumping spiders, a tiny chirping frog and an elegant striped gecko are among more than 50 species believed new to science were discovered
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The Funnel web spiders are out a month earlier than usual, looking for a mate. The general manager of the Australian Reptile Park, Mary Rayner, said that over the past few weeks no less than forty Funnel webs had been delivered to the park.
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Spider silk's adaptability and the "clever design" of webs are key to the remarkable strength of these structures, experiments reveal.
Orb-weaving spiders avoid sticking to their own webs because of the way they move, say scientists.
Producers of Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark agree to pay sacked director Julie Taymor hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties.
Experts say they have seen an increase in the number of Britain's most dangerous spider, the false widow. But should it worry us?
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, which was written by U2's Bono and The Edge, garners the highest single-week takings of any show in Broadway history.
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