As NATURE’s True Adventures of the Ultimate Spider-Hunter shows, spiders use their silk in dazzling ways — from building webs that telegraph the presence of trapped prey to creating barriers ...

"Nature is still better at making the microstructures" that, as demonstrated in some of his earlier research, are responsible for silk's unique stiff, stretchy properties, he says.

You must have heard that spider silk is stronger than steel. We all want to believe that there are wonder materials in nature that are far superior to human-made ones. But the problem with ...

Unbelievably, some silk is stronger than a thread of steel at the same dimensions and tougher than the Kevlar used in bulletproof vests!

How can a tiny spider body contain material for several decimeters of gossamer silk, and what governs the conversion to thread? Researchers in Sweden can now explain this process.

For Kaplan and others, silk is the best way to meet that need. Common thread Silk evolved independently in many invertebrates, including spiders, honeybees and silkworms.

Several companies are now banking on bioengineered silk to create a new generation of textiles and materials...and a necktie. Laura DeFrancesco investigates.

In this Know Your Handloom edition, we take a look at the Parsi gara embroidery - a blend of cultures, reimagined for modern ...

Spider silk is one of nature's wonders which we ought to appreciate. For its weight, it is stronger than steel, more elastic than nylon. Spiders didn't invent silk.

Spider flight is a mysterious phenomenon not fully understood by science. How is it that spiders can ride the wind for miles at a time?