Great Britain is beginning to appreciate the importance of broadening the education of the mathematician and the scientific worker. In all subjects new knowledge ... is piling up at a great rate ...

‘Most spiders have poor eyesight and rely almost exclusively on the vibration of the silk in their web for sensory information,’ said Beth Mortimer of the Oxford Silk Group who led the ...

A collaborator asked him to analyze a toxin found in the venom of Australia’s deadly funnel-web spider. The work led to clues about the toxin’s function, a paper in Nature Structural and ...

Deborah M. Gordon, Nature "This timely book appears when there is still a manageable number of studies of spider ecology: in less than 300 pages of text, Wise covers all the major work in depth." ...

Adult females are 6-7 mm long (ignoring legs), and males are 3.5-5 mm long. The spiders have a silver-grey coloured abdomen with a brown oak leaf pattern on the back. The legs are dark brown with ...

"Spider webs are not just beautiful, they could be our secret weapon to better understanding nature. Our study shows that these webs can help us keep tabs on different animals without disturbing ...

The regularity of the delicate structures made by spiders is one of the wonders of nature. Now abnormalities in these patterns are used to study the mechanism by which drugs produce their effects ...

Season: all year round. Usually found outdoors on walls, fencing and clutter around the garden, but most common in homes in autumn when males leave their webs to search for female spiders. Also common ...