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 ...

Computational analysis provides new insights into silk's mechanical properties that was unavailable experimentally ...

Spider silk is one of the most fascinating natural materials known to humans. It is more flexible than rubber yet tougher ...

Spider silk, already known for its exceptional strength, reveals an astonishing manufacturing process. Researchers have ...

When spiders spin their webs, they use their hind legs to pull silk threads from their spinnerets. This pulling action doesn't just help the spider release the silk, it's also a crucial step in ...

When it is inside the spider, the silk is a watery fluid known as dope. It travels through progressively narrowing ducts where water is extracted. Then it passes through a mildly acidic bath and this ...

When they weave their webs, spiders pull their silk threads. New simulations show stretching during spinning causes the protein chains within the fibers to align and the number of hydrogen bonds ...

When spiders spin their webs, they use their hind legs to pull silk threads from their spinnerets. This pulling action ...

Then it passes through a mildly acidic bath and this together with the pulling stress converts the liquid protein to a solid. The silk is pulled out either by gravity or by the spider’s legs.

When spiders spin their webs, they use their hind legs to pull silk threads from their spinnerets. This pulling action doesn’t just help the spider release the silk, it’s also a crucial step ...