Spiders leap across rooms, making heart-stopping attacks, in the new movie thriller Arachnophobia. They swarm through a house, slithering down shower curtains, crawling up through drains, lurking u… ...

Using virtual reality, researchers have found a way to translate spiders’ webs into music. Future experiments could involve finding ways to communicate with the arachnoids.

ALTHOUGH of great interest in itself, the note by Prof. Cook, in NATURE for July 14, p. 247, becomes more interesting still when considered in connection with Dufour's observation touching the ...