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 combine ...

Simulations showed that stretching aligns protein chains and increases hydrogen bonds, which act like tiny bridges between ...

It is both strong and stretchy but not all spider silk is the same ... have very small bodies but long and thin legs. They like constant temperatures which is why they are commonly found in ...

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.

This homemade, glistening material has some spidey strength of its own. Spider silk is tougher than Kevlar, more flexible than nylon, and thinner than a single strand of human hair, making this ...

Compared to its size, spider silk possesses exceptional tensile strength ... The protein solution was then drawn through ...

he was smart to try to mimic spider silk. After all, the real stuff is pound for pound, stronger than steel. He also seems to have improved upon it, using what looks to be carbon nanotubes to ...

The project was led by Dr. Xiaoli Zhang, the Company’s research manager, whose team continues to push the boundaries of genetic engineering for spider silk production.

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 ...

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 ...

The hagfish is an eel-shaped jawless fish that lives at the bottom of the ocean and produces slime/silk consisting of tens of thousands of very thin protein threads very similar to spider silk.

When they weave their webs, spiders pull their silk threads. New simulations show stretching during spinning causes the protein chains within the fibers to align and the number of hydrogen bonds ...