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 ...

Sorry, Kevlar. Spider silk loaded with carbon nanotubes may be the burliest fiber around. When spritzed with the tiny tubes, spiders spin superstrong, supertough ...

When Spider-man made his own webbing in his high school chemistry class, 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 ...

Scanning electron microscopy images of fibers from engineered spider silk. To validate their computational findings, the Northwestern team used spectroscopy techniques to examine how the protein ...

Spider silk is among the strongest and toughest materials in the natural world, as strong as some steel alloys with a toughness even greater than bulletproof Kevlar. Spider silk's unmatched ...

Nephila clavata, a golden orb weaver. — Image by Kinori via Wikimedia / Public Domain Nephila clavata, a golden orb weaver. — Image by Kinori via Wikimedia / Public Domain A new study finds the amount ...

Italian researchers have discovered that common backyard spiders, when sprayed by carbon nanomaterials, can produce silk several times stronger than the most resilient spider thread known. Their work ...

We've built skyscrapers, planes that travel faster than sound and particle colliders a mile below the Earth's surface. Yet in some ways, the humble little house spider has got humans beat: The silken ...

Musical compositions based on the structure of silk could help engineers make stronger threads. A multi-disciplinary research team from Boston University, Tufts University and MIT turned to musical ...

Scientists have, for the first time, created a biosynthetic spider silk that behaves like the real thing. And they may soon make it even stronger. Spider silk is among the strongest and toughest ...