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

When spiders spin their webs, they use their hind legs to pull silk threads from their spinnerets. This pulling action ...

Now a research group, led by Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, presents an ordinary silk thread, coated with a ...

This happy accident inspired her to acquire these threads in abundance and fashion them into an elegant fabric. While silk maintained its high-society status over the next thousands of years, the ...

When spiders spin their webs, they use their hind legs to pull silk threads from their spinnerets. This pulling action doesn’t just help the spider release the silk, it’s also a crucial step ...

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 ...