The U.S. military is interested in ‘super spiders’ capable of producing silk with extraordinary features. Don’t worry—it ...

For years, the CRISPR-Cas9 genome technology has been reshaping genetic engineering, a precision tool to transform everything ...

Germany’s AMSilk – one of the world’s leading makers of bio-engineered silk – has ... to create a new spider silk-based material that could be used to build a lightweight, high-performance ...

“Spider silk has a very high conductivity that you can use for this type of electronics cooling,” he says. “It’s lightweight ... very promising for thermal transport,” Wang says.

A more likely venture is using spider silk in high-performance materials where lightweight durability is a priority — everything from bulletproof vests to car panels. Spider silk may also make its way ...