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

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 ...

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 ...