{"id":243896,"date":"2026-09-11T01:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T06:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/two-golden-silk-orb-weavers-lived-on-the-iss-for-two-months-most-space-built-webs-became-nearly-symmetric-but-under-light-the-spiders-used-brightness-as-a-new-sense-of-up"},"modified":"2026-09-11T01:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T06:04:09","slug":"two-golden-silk-orb-weavers-lived-on-the-iss-for-two-months-most-space-built-webs-became-nearly-symmetric-but-under-light-the-spiders-used-brightness-as-a-new-sense-of-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/two-golden-silk-orb-weavers-lived-on-the-iss-for-two-months-most-space-built-webs-became-nearly-symmetric-but-under-light-the-spiders-used-brightness-as-a-new-sense-of-up","title":{"rendered":"Two golden silk orb weavers lived on the ISS for two months; most space-built webs became nearly symmetric, but under light the spiders used brightness as a new sense of up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-golden-silk-orb-weavers-lived-on-the-iss-for-two-months-most-space-built-webs-became-nearly-symmetric-but-under-light-the-spiders-used-brightness-as-a-new-sense-of-up.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A groundbreaking study reveals how golden orb spiders adapted their web-building techniques in microgravity aboard the ISS, using light as a new sense of orientation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A groundbreaking study reveals how golden orb spiders adapted their web-building techniques in microgravity aboard the ISS, using light as a new sense of orientation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}