Now, a team of scientists from Japan and Hong Kong are closer to replicating artificial spider silk using microfluidics. Based on how spiders spin their silk, the researchers designed a ...

Inspired by the natural wonder of spider silk, a team of researchers has created an artificial version with extraordinary ...

Narrator: This is Randy Lewis, a molecular biologist at Utah State University known for his pioneering efforts in producing synthetic spider silk. Now, Lewis and other scientists say that silk is ...

Scientists reporting in ACS Nano have made their own version of fake spider silk, but this one consists of proteins and heals ...

Known for its unmatched relative strength and flexibility, which could find uses in novel textiles, spider silk has long eluded efficient synthetic replication, in part because it has been ...

Natural spider silk is about 1,000 times stronger than this artificial version. However, Rome wasn’t built in a day, and ...

He argued that future experiments should try to directly observe these layers by capturing silk cross-sections using electron microscopy. Researchers hope that artificial spider silk could one day ...

His company, Bolt Threads, has engineered a sustainable and versatile material from synthetic spider silk that may one day be used to make iPad covers, car seats, and even name-brand clothing.

But Peter may have gone one step further and actually made one improvement to his synthetic silk. More from News When Spider-man made his own webbing in his high school chemistry class ...

If you see a small spider in a web that you've identified as belonging to a female golden silk orb weaver, that's likely her ...

Now, a team of scientists from Japan and Hong Kong are closer to replicating artificial spider silk using microfluidics. Based on how spiders spin their silk, the researchers designed a ...

Scientists are creating artificial spider silk by drawing strands from an array of tiny hollow needles, as shown here, similar to how arachnids do it. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...