“The thread count of a fabric matters less than the quality of cotton," says Doyle. "For example, 200 thread count sheets ...

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

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 in ...

The cribellum consists of thousands of tiny spigots each producing a tiny fibril of silk. This means that the thread produced is actually made up of thousands of smaller fibrils. The wool-like thread ...

Scientists finally cracked the code on making fabric that can generate electricity from body heat by creating a special ...

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

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

At the end of each spinneret is a collection of spigots, nozzle-like structures. A single silk thread comes out of each. Jan explains, 'Although it looks a bit like an icing nozzle, the silk is pulled ...

They soak the cocoons for up to seven hours to soften the threads before pulling them. This machine reels the silk. Workers then hang the threads to dry. Next, the threads are machine-woven.

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 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 ...