How small is “small?” Spider silk nanofibrils are just a few molecular layers thick, equivalent to approximately one ...

A new system that allows a fluid material to be shot from a needle has been created by a team of researchers at Tufts ...

The researchers successfully retrieved a metal scalpel buried in sand and picked up steel bolts and lab tubes ... still the ...

There’s no question the webs are annoying. For all their apparent fragility, they’re really pretty sturdy — pound for pound, spider silk is stronger than steel and tougher than Kevlar police vests.

Silk sticks to and lifts steel bolts from petri dish ... a distance of about 12 centimetres”. Although spider silk is still some 1,000 times stronger, scientists say, the new fibres can be ...

For example, the silk fibers lifted a cocoon, a steel bolt ... Still, nothing beats the original. Spider-woven silks remain 1 ...

Armed with coaxial needles, the scientists gained a Spider-Man-like web-slinging superpower, shooting the chitosan-induced silk solution to catch and lift steel bolts ... spider silk is about 1,000 ...

Appearance and Behavior Medium-sized spider, brown and yellow coloration, active at night, feeds on insects. Web-Spinning Abilities Produces silk stronger than steel, silk comprises multiple proteins, ...

The researchers demonstrated this by accurately lifting various objects, including a cocoon, a steel bolt, a lab tube floating ... While natural spider silk is still markedly stronger than the ...