By simulating spider silk in a computational model, the team discovered the stretching process aligns the protein chains ...

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

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

Spiders don’t just spin webs—they engineer them. By stretching their silk as they spin, spiders strengthen the fibers at the ...

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 ...