A microscope image of two exceptional threads of silk from the Australian net-caster spider has been announced as the winner of the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2025. The ...

NEW YORK (AP) — With two pairs of fine-tipped tweezers and the hands of a surgeon, Cheryl Hayashi began dissecting the body of a silver garden spider under her microscope. In just a few minutes she ...

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The image, taken with a scanning electron microscope (SEM), shows a 0.05-millimetre-long close-up of silk from the Australian net-casting spider (Asianopis subrufa). These spiders are ambush predators ...