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 ...

Silk Road, the underground website where dealers sold illegal drugs, was supposed to be safe. The site was nestled deep in the dark web, accessible only through the anonymizing network Tor.

But more than two years since the FBI's Silk Road takedown, the dark web markets Ulbricht inspired are suffering a less tangible but more fundamental kind of failure: the Silk Road’s dream has ...

There’s a spider in Britain that’s a tad unusual. Instead of spinning “thick” silk threads (in this case, thick means several micrometers), the garden center spider can spin tiny nano ...

Albanian women have long been famed for their stylish and colourful traditional attire that some still wore until relatively ...

Much like Silk Road, AlphaBay was hosted on the dark web, and facilitated the sale ... But the investigators still had to pull all the threads and fingerprints left on the blockchain and the ...

Phan Thi Thuan's family have been making silk for generations, growing and harvesting the threads from silkworms themselves to create luxury garments. But making lotus silk is different.

If fluorescent green silk becomes the next fashion trend, Hajime Mori and his colleagues at the Kyoto Institute of Technology have it made. In their efforts to develop an insect system to produce ...