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 ...

The number of times I have walked into a spider web is pretty comical. At first, I saw them as a nuisance during my forest adventures, but upon a closer look with my macro lens, I began to notice that ...

A space elevator has long been a science-fiction dream—but advances in bioengineered spider silk may bring it closer to ...

Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the ...

Discover why only female Darwin's bark spiders produce the strongest silk, surpassing steel in toughness and strength.

What is five times stronger than steel, yet as elastic as nylon? The answer may surprise you. It’s spider silk. On July 15, the natural materials division of the Air Force Office of Scientific ...

Jan. 31 -- It may be impossible to craft a silk purse from a sow's ear. But one day, it may be possible to fashion a silk bulletproof vest from, of all things, goat's milk. For decades, scientists ...

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