Peter Parker stares downward in "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" (2026) - Sony Pictures Releasing/YouTube Peter Parker (Tom Holland) owes his very existence as a superhero to a DNA mutation. Bitten by a ...

Spiders think with their webs, challenging our ideas of intelligence Josh Newton at Curtin University in Western Australia and his colleagues have found that spider webs capture the DNA of creatures ...

Researchers funded by the U.S. Navy have used gene-editing technology to make house spiders produce red fluorescent silk. This might seem like a quirky scientific novelty, but the breakthrough is a ...

"We had this crazy idea that spider webs would capture airborne DNA from local vertebrates. Our initial results from Perth's hills were promising with a bunch of local wildlife detections, but the ...

Jared is a writer, editor, and Communications Studies graduate who loves popular nerd culture (almost anything to do with Marvel, DC, Star Wars, or The Lord of the Rings) and the interactive ...

"Spider-Man: Brand New Day" seems set to take Peter Parker down a strange road indeed — one that might seem rather familiar ...