Spider Ballooning

A rain of spiders drowned the Australian town of Goulburn in silk in 2015. A Goulburn resident who bravely looked up saw a several-hundred-yard tunnel of spiderlings in the air, he said. The spiders parachuted in on long strands of webbing, a behavior that biologists call "ballooning."

The latest viral spider news is horrifying at face value: Residents of North Memphis, Tennessee, were treated to an unexpectedly white Thanksgiving when a spider web at least half a mile long appeared on the grass.

Researchers have launched a new experiment on a balloon in Antarctica, that uses a set of six telescopes, to investigate the Big Bang.

A rain of spiders drowned the Australian town of Goulburn in silk in 2015. A Goulburn resident who bravely looked up saw a several-hundred-yard tunnel of spiderlings in the air, he said. The spiders parachuted in on long strands of webbing, a behavior that biologists call "ballooning."

The latest viral spider news is horrifying at face value: Residents of North Memphis, Tennessee, were treated to an unexpectedly white Thanksgiving when a spider web at least half a mile long appeared on the grass.

Researchers have launched a new experiment on a balloon in Antarctica, that uses a set of six telescopes, to investigate the Big Bang.