Sci-fi movies feature technology that seems far beyond our current capabilities, but that isn't always true. This new ...

it could be used in advances in artificial ligaments, surgical sutures, and hernia meshes. While other spider threads rely on one protein, this one combines two, with protein structures that build ...

But pound for pound, it's stronger than steel! So if you twisted spider silk into a thread that was 2 millimeters wide — as thick as a strand of spaghetti — it could support 900 pounds before ...

When a US research lab accidentally created a sticky, web-like substance, it turned to Peter Parker and comic-book lore for ...

While spider silk proteins are something you can make in your garage, making useful drag line fibers has proved a daunting challenge. Now, a team of scientists from Japan and Hong Kong are closer ...

Spider webs are made from a protein fiber which we call silk.It is both strong and stretchy but not all spider silk is the same, there are several different types. Spiders produce silk using ...

Spider silk’s potential A decade ago ... the radial lines in webs and also when spiders suspend themselves by a thread. This variety, known for its toughness and mechanical usefulness, allowed ...

Dragline silk, the thread by which the spider hangs itself from the web, is one of the strongest fibers; its tensile strength—a measure of how much a polymer deforms when strained—is almost thrice ...

which makes up the radial threads of the web. Using mass spectrometry, the team identified 18 proteins in the major silk fibers, including six not previously linked to spider silk. Although the team ...

While spider silk proteins are something you can make in your garage, making useful drag line fibers has proved a daunting challenge. Now, a team of scientists from Japan and Hong Kong are closer ...