Their resulting paper, published in Advanced Materials, suggested a base width for the silk of 6-to-8 micrometers; its thickness is between 100-150 times less. “The beautiful thing is that, despite ...

Exactly 12 minutes later, the group covered the project with the same contraption. Logan Tullai ’25, the project’s mastermind, gathered the blue silk and rushed it to a 57-gallon bin of cold water to ...

Dressed head-to-toe in brown silk and wearing a pearl necklace -- the same outfit she dons as she picks through the lotus paddies -- Thuan describes her work. It's a painstaking process -- a large ...

Brown cows may not actually make chocolate milk, but pink silkworms do produce pink skeins of silk, a team of scientists has discovered. To see if they could produce pre-dyed silk—silk that ...

For centuries, Thailand has produced premium silk fabrics. Now, researchers in Bangkok have found another use for the fiber: to deliver medicines into the body.

Brown Recluse Silk Is Stronger Than Steel Because It’s Constructed Like a Cable Thousands of nanotendrils come together to form the flat, super-strong spider silk. Jason Daley - Correspondent.

Dressed head-to-toe in brown silk and wearing a pearl necklace — the same outfit she dons as she picks through the lotus paddies — Thuan describes her work. It's a painstaking process — a large scarf ...