Whether you are a fan of spiders or terrified of them, you can’t help but admire their ability to make webs. These fascinating and unique structures are incredible feats of engineering that combine ...

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

Researchers have found evidence that a common North American spider species alters its webs to deal with urban noise ...

Narrator: A spider's web is more than just a spider's house. This homemade, glistening material has some spidey strength of its own. Spider silk is tougher than Kevlar, more flexible than nylon ...

Spider silk is one of the most fascinating natural materials known to humans. It is more flexible than rubber yet tougher than bulletproof Kevlar and five times stronger than steel on a weight per ...

The project was led by Dr. Xiaoli Zhang, the Company’s research manager, whose team continues to push the boundaries of genetic engineering for spider silk production.

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

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Researchers don’t know enough about spider silk structure and composition to understand why it possesses such superior mechanical properties. For ...