In a quiet lab in Bayreuth, Germany, a team of researchers has achieved what has long eluded geneticists: modifying the ...

Researchers used the popular gene-editing technique CRISPR to modify the DNA sequences of house spiders, causing them to ...

Scientists created the world's first gene-edited spider, which spins webs that glow red under the right lighting conditions.

Yet, working with spider silk proved a particularly intricate problem ... Mist debuted on the Nederlands Dans Theater website in January 2022. Writer and Wallpaper* Contributing Editor Mary Cleary is ...

If spider silk came out of a factory, it would be hailed as one of the greatest inventions of all time. Delicate yet amazingly sturdy, strong yet stunningly beautiful, it is a material that brings ...

An upcoming Spider-Man spin-off based on Marvel’s Silk is heading to Prime Video. Angela Kang, who served as showrunner on The Walking Dead, will head up Silk: Spider Society which also sees ...

This week in New York, the American Museum of Natural History unveiled something never before seen: an 11-by-4-foot tapestry made completely of spider silk. Weavers in Madagascar took four years ...

A spider discovered deep in the jungles of Madagascar spins the largest webs in the world, using silk that's tougher than any known biological substance. Named Caerostris darwini, or Darwin's bark ...

Penning in a bunch of golden orb weavers – the queens of the web-spinning world – will earn you only a few milligrams of ultra-tough spider’s silk. Skaer, now the CEO of biomaterials ...

The prototype, called the “Moon Parka,” is a first—a coat whose outer shell is spun from synthetic spider silk. “Not since DuPont first launched Lycra 40 years ago has a textile come along ...

If spiders use their webs like a large external eardrum, researchers reasoned, perhaps spider silk could be the basis for a powerful listening device. By Jordan Pearson Engineers and scientists ...