• 昆虫拍动翅膀产生电荷易被蛛网吸引

    13-07-05 Flapping insects build up an electrical charge that may make them more easily snared by spider webs, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, biologists. The positive charge on an insect such as a bee or fly attracts the web,...

  • 中国四川发现两种微型蜘蛛

    13-05-23 Two new minute spider species have been discovered from the Sichuan and Chongqing, China. The tiny new spiders are both less than 2 mm in length, with Trogloneta yuensis being as little as 1.01 mm and Mysmena wawuensis measured to be the even tinier...

  • 蜘蛛丝可以导热

    12-03-06 Xinwei Wang had a hunch that(总感到,总怀疑) spider webs were worth a much closer look. So he ordered eight spiders -- Nephila clavipes, golden silk orbweavers -- and put them to work eating crickets and spinning webs in the cages he set up in an...

  • I do not recognize you

    12-01-19 Walking on the beach one day he saw a crab, went to see what happens, suddenly crab pincers(钳子) folder, then crab bush run. Tiger jumped the pain, followed by the recovery of crabs! Catch up with no trees on the crab, and then to see a tiger in...

  • 基因改造蛛丝可用于基因治疗

    11-08-11 Genetically engineered spider silk could help overcome a major barrier to the use of gene therapy in everyday medicine, according to a new study that reported development and successful initial laboratory tests of such a material. It appears in ACS'...

  • 水蜘蛛如何在水下呼吸

    11-06-10 Gazing into the depths of a pond, it's hard to miss the insects that whirl and zip beneath the surface. However, only one species of spider has joined them: the diving bell spider, Argyroneta aquatica(水蜘蛛) . 'It is an iconic animal; I had read...

  • 英国洞穴蜘蛛被“送回家”

    09-12-07 A colony of huge cave spiders are finally heading home after 10 years. 一群巨大的洞穴蜘蛛在实验室待了10年之后最终被送回家。 Squatting in a house for a decade The spiders have been squatting in a disused废弃的 building in the Yorkshire Dales after es...

  • “巨网蜘蛛”被发现

    09-10-21 A new and rare species of giant orb web spider has been discovered in Africa and Madagascar. 非洲和马达加斯加发现一种新的稀有物种,巨网蜘蛛。 Orb-weaving spiders can spin webs of up to 1m in diameter In the journal Plos One, researchers describe Nep...

  • 'Veggie' spider shuns meat diet “素食主义”蜘蛛无视“荤菜”

    09-10-13 A spider that dines almost exclusively on plants has been described by scientists. 科学家发现了几乎仅以植物为食的蜘蛛。 The spiders have to dodge ants to get to the leaf tips It is the first-known predominantly(优越地,卓越地) vegetarian spider; a...

  • Ancient spiders yield 3D secrets 古蜘蛛3D模型显秘密

    09-08-05 Ancient fossilised, spider-like species have been imaged in 3D using thousands of X-ray scans and imaging software. 类似蜘蛛物种的古化石通过数千X射线扫描以及成像软件绘制出3D模型。 The two species, Cryptomartus hindi and Eophrynus prestvicii, lived 3...