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 ...

In these glands, they have the chemical components already put together to produce silk, but it’s in a liquid form. When spiders want to produce a strand of solid silk, they have to pull this strand ...

The microfluidic device. Precursor spidroin solution is placed at one end and then pulled towards the other end by means of negative pressure. As the spidroins flow through the microfluidic channels, ...

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 to ...

The number of times I have walked into a spider web is pretty comical. At first, I saw them as a nuisance during my forest adventures, but upon a closer look with my macro lens, I began to notice that ...

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Spider silk is widely known to be one of nature's strongest and toughest materials. If everything works out as intended, an alfalfa-produced synthetic version of the stuff will be used in the ...