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 ...

The site, which was shut down in 2013 alongside Ulbricht's arrest, was a notorious marketplace for illegal drugs, among other products.

The online website Silk Road, used for black market drug deals, is not only back up and running – a new version is more vibrant than ever, according to a report published today by the Digital ...

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The Silk Road's libertarian free-trade zone has devolved into a fragmented, less ethical, and far less trusted collection of scam-ridden black markets.

Spider silk has also been tested for a more unlikely cosmetic application: silicone breast implants. AMSilk has completed preclinical testing for BioShield-S1, an ultrathin coating of spider silk ...

It sounds like something out of a comic book: a material that shoots from a needle and solidifies into a fiber capable of lifting objects 80 times its own weight. But we’re not talking fiction here.

Spiders determine how the silk vibrates using more prosaic methods. They create transverse waves by bouncing up and down on their web and longitudinal waves by plucking the strands of silk.

More information: Marie Vihmar et al, Silk-inspired in situ web spinning for situated robots, npj Robotics (2025). DOI: ...