he was smart to try to mimic spider silk. After all, the real stuff is pound for pound, stronger than steel. He also seems to have improved upon it, using what looks to be carbon nanotubes to ...

the fibres picked up a “steel bolt, a laboratory tube floating on water, a scalpel partially buried in sand and a wood block from a distance of about 12 centimetres”. Although spider silk is ...

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

"It can be nearly as strong as steel under tension," said the researcher ... "The best chemists in the world could not convert polyethylene into spider silk, but these bacteria can," said ...

Spider silk has a tensile strength five times that of steel but it retains flexibility. Goat-produced spider silk, therefore, has potential commercial applications in fashion and in military wear.

In this case, we’re talking about genetically modified yeast that produces spider silk. If that sounds like a lead-in to some Spiderman jokes and sci-fi references, you are correct on both accounts.