An international team of researchers led by scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas found that common nylon materials like fishing line and sewing thread can be converted into super strong ...

Scientists say they have created muscle fibers that are 100 times more powerful than human muscles, using only ordinary fishing line and sewing thread. They hope the muscles can help people who ...

Forget push-ups. The key to superhuman strength can be found in everyday items like sewing thread and fishing line. Through extreme twisting, these polymer fibers can be transformed into artificial ...

An international team led by The University of Texas at Dallas has discovered that ordinary fishing line and sewing thread can be cheaply converted to powerful artificial muscles. The new muscles ...

everyday fishing line. Or sewing thread, if you prefer. Not only are these materials cheap and readily available, they can be converted into high performance artificial muscles easily – just ...

Twisting together a bundle of polyethylene fishing lines, whose total diameter is only about 10 times larger than a human hair, produces a coiled polymer muscle that can lift 16 pounds.