Spider silk may look delicate, but it’s one of the strongest materials found in nature, stronger than steel by weight. In ...

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

A more likely venture is using spider silk in high-performance materials where lightweight durability is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.

Spider silk ... in which spider silk is used to help retrain nerves after major injuries, to improve the quality of microphones for use in hearing aids, and to form lightweight shields capable ...

Some strands were up to 70 percent stronger than silk spun by spiders, the team found. The work is the latest in a decades-long quest to create fibers as strong, lightweight and biodegradable as ...

Spider silk is an unparalleled material: It’s strong and tough, yet also lightweight and flexible. But getting spiders to mass-produce their silk for commercial purposes has proven nearly ...