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 ...

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

A virtually indestructible capsule Scientists used synthetic spider silk biopolymers -- a lightweight ... Silk microparticles form a transport capsule that protects the vaccine peptide from ...

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 ...

Why are the lightweight silk threads of web spiders tougher than most other materials? Scientists from the Universities of Würzburg and Mainz teamed up to find answers to this question.

Scientists have long sought an artificial way to produce spider silk, a flexible and lightweight fiber that, by weight, is five times stronger than steel. But attempts to farm spiders have failed.