A hackled orb weaver (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins University

A hackled orb weaver

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Johns Hopkins University researchers discovered precisely how spiders build webs by using night vision and artificial intelligence to track and record every movement of all eight legs as spiders worked in the dark.

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Johns Hopkins University

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