Simulations showed that stretching aligns protein chains and increases hydrogen bonds, which act like tiny bridges between ...

Spiders don’t just spin webs—they engineer them. By stretching their silk as they spin, spiders strengthen the fibers at the ...

By extruding engineered spider silk proteins and then stretching them by hand, the team has developed artificial fibers ...

Not only does spider silk combine the useful properties of high tensile strength and extensibility, it can be beautiful in its own right. 'Silk is an amazing material,' says Jan Beccaloni, our ...

“When they spin silk out of their silk gland, spiders use their hind legs to grab the fiber and pull it out. That stretches ...

Spider webs combine complex principles of physics and chemistry to create one of the world's most remarkable substances. We explain how.

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 ...

By extruding engineered spider silk proteins and then stretching them by hand, the team has developed artificial fibers similar to threads from the golden silk orb weaver, a large spider with a ...

By extruding engineered spider silk proteins and then stretching them by hand, the team has developed artificial fibers similar to threads from the golden silk orb weaver, a large spider with a ...

By extruding engineered spider silk proteins and then stretching them by hand, the researchers have developed artificial fibres similar to threads from the golden silk orb weaver, a large spider ...

By extruding engineered spider silk proteins and then stretching them by hand, the team has developed artificial fibers similar to threads from the golden silk orb weaver, a large spider with a ...