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The frequencies of a vibrating spider web have been made into music
A virtual reality experience converts the vibrations spiders feel on their webs into sound, giving us a sense of how spiders experience the world
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A tiny spider can spin different types of web for land, air and water
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Life
Some spiders use their silk to hoist helpless prey so it cannot escape
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Some male spiders tie up females before mating to avoid being eaten
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Spider listens with its legs to grab flying insects out of the air
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Technology
Lenses made with spider silk could help take pictures inside the body
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Life
Millions of hairy tarantula skins could be used to mop up oil spills
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Spiders think with their webs, challenging our ideas of intelligence
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Artificial skin grown from spider silk could help heal wounds
Wounds and burns could one day be treated聽by the material spiders use to make their webs
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Spiders can 鈥榝ly鈥� because they make near-invisible paragliders
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When a daddy longlegs is attacked by a flatworm things get messy
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Daft male spiders prefer females who are more likely to eat them
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Earth
‘Scary’ spider photos on Facebook are revealing new species
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