Known for its unmatched relative strength and flexibility, which could find uses in novel textiles, spider silk has long eluded efficient synthetic replication, in part because it has been ...

Spiders make their webs from silk, a natural fibre made of protein. Not only does spider silk combine the useful properties of high tensile strength and extensibility, it can be beautiful in its own ...

While spider silk proteins are something you can make in your garage, making useful drag line fibers has proved a daunting challenge. Now, a team of scientists from Japan and Hong Kong are closer ...

In this case, we’re talking about genetically modified yeast that produces spider silk. If that sounds like a lead-in to some Spiderman jokes and sci-fi references, you are correct on both accounts.

Understanding how the stretching process strengthens spider silk is a key part of helping design stronger, biodegradable, silk-inspired materials for various applications. When spiders spin their webs ...

Scanning electron microscopy images of fibers from engineered spider silk. To validate their computational findings, the Northwestern team used spectroscopy techniques to examine how the protein ...

This small piece of fabric is silk from a German parachute from World War II. During the war, the owner’s mother saw an aeroplane crash in the field just beyond their cottage and a ...

The results provide evidence for the hypothesis that spiders crouch to sense differences in web frequencies to locate prey ...

One spider is building its nest on Beacon ... Scientists say it’s closer to using a parachute as they release silk strands that can catch the wind and carry them through the air.

TSURUOKA, Yamagata Prefecture--A biotechnology startup based here is drawing major attention from investors for its development of spider silk for use as a synthetic fiber. Spider silk ...

The creepy crawler -- the Joro spider -- has stirred up a frenzy ... Ballooning is when the spiders make "silk webs that act as a parachute, it lifts them into the atmosphere and carries them ...