Cave-dwelling orb spiders have adapted their webs so they act as tripwires for prey that crawl on the walls of the caves ...

Simulations showed that stretching aligns protein chains and increases hydrogen bonds, which act like tiny bridges between them. These changes enhance the silk’s strength, elasticity, and toughness.

The story of silk is full of the extraordinary. First Paraguay and Suriname have caterpillars larger than any in Europe, ...

Whether you are a fan of spiders or terrified of them, you can’t help but admire their ability to make webs. These fascinating and unique structures are incredible feats of engineering that ...

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 ...

Computational analysis provides new insights into silk's mechanical properties that was unavailable experimentally ...

A SNEAKY spider that becomes “virtually invisible to predators” has been discovered. The critter is described as a “master ...

The project was led by Dr. Xiaoli Zhang, the Company's research manager, whose team continues to push the boundaries of ...

In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders ...

(OTCQB: KBLB) ("Company" or "Kraig Labs"), a world leader in spider silk biotechnology, today announced a groundbreaking scientific achievement in the development of high-performance biomaterials.

A robot capable of building, or more appropriately, spinning, new parts has been developed by a team of researchers from the ...