A pair of entomologists at the University of Georgia has found that Joro spider heart rates fluctuate less when they are experiencing stress compared to similar spiders. In their study, published in ...

Spiders have a reputation for giving some humans a fright, but a team of scientists has flipped the script to learn why one increasingly visible species seems to have an edge on handling stress. Jorō ...

A protein identified in the venom of the Fraser Island funnel-web spider called Hi1a could block so-called death signals sent to cells after a cardiac arrest. “The Hi1a protein from spider venom ...