Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, starring Tobey Maguire, celebrates its 20th anniversary today. The film, which helped kick off the superhero movie craze, told the story of Peter Parker's transformation from ...

Some Marvel Comics fans believe Miguel O'Hara, aka Spider-Man 2099, could be a vampire. Here's how his unique powers fuel the ...

"We had this crazy idea that spider webs would capture airborne DNA from local vertebrates. Our initial results from Perth's hills were promising with a bunch of local wildlife detections, but the ...

Researchers funded by the U.S. Navy have used gene-editing technology to make house spiders produce red fluorescent silk. This might seem like a quirky scientific novelty, but the breakthrough is a ...

Scientists have successfully managed to extract DNA from spider webs, which not only identified a web's architect, but also what insects the spinner was feeding on. The proof-of-concept study, ...

Here’s an amazing but true story to tide you over until the Spider-Man movie appears this summer: Cow and hamster cells can produce spider silk of their own, given the right kind of genetic coaxing.

After nearly two and a half hours of web slinging, villain battling, and multiverse jumping, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse delivers a climactic final scene that seems designed to leave audiences ...

Crimson red ladybug spider with surprising scientific characteristics has been discovered in Morocco and named Eresus ...