In addition, some species of spider are able to create silk that is the stronger than Kevlar and has many practical uses ...

Feather-legged lace weaver spider kills prey using toxic regurgitated s Regurgitated poison-coated silk replaces traditional ...

Spider silk is a biomaterial that has come to intrigue ... During spinning of the silk, amino acids arrange themselves as tiny nanocrystals embedded in a soft amorphous matrix of molecular ...

Most spider species subdue dinner by injecting venom from their fangs. Feather-legged lace weavers swathe prey in silk, then upchuck a killing brew.

A research team has found that a common spider kills its prey with poison but does not inject it into them—instead, it covers ...

This might seem like a quirky scientific novelty, but the breakthrough is a critical step toward modifying spider silk properties and creating new “supermaterials” for industries ranging from ...

The researchers found that Joro spiders (Trichonephila clavate) have a specific order in which they synthesize the proteins and other chemicals needed to make spider silk, using their specialized ...

Getting enough silk is difficult. Spiders make the strongest silk that we know about. Unfortunately, spider silk is hard to come by—it’s certainly very hard to get enough for most uses ...

If spiders use their webs like a large external eardrum, researchers reasoned, perhaps spider silk could be the basis for a powerful listening device. By Jordan Pearson Engineers and scientists ...