While you might think that we've learned all we need to from feeding spiders illegal drugs, people working at NASA in the ...

The bold question-askers at What If uncover how spider silk might be engineered to create next-generation bulletproof skin.

Matthew Dean, Sales Engineer and Head of the Medical Business Unit at maxon, explores how Newrotex and maxon are developing an innovative approach to overcome the common challenges of traditional ...

Feather-legged lace weaver spider kills prey using toxic regurgitated s Regurgitated poison-coated silk replaces traditional ...

These are the unfortunately final moments of victims of the Uloboridae spiders, a family of orb weavers that, unlike almost ...

A research team has found that a common spider kills its prey with poison but does not inject it into them—instead, it covers ...

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 abdomen of a spider is where silk is produced. Inside these glands, spiders produce a liquid protein solution that is then extruded through tiny nozzle-like organs called spinnerets.

The artificial silk gland was able to re-create the complex molecular structure of silk by mimicking the various chemical and physical changes that naturally occur in a spider’s silk gland. This ...

Using microfluidics to “spin” silk. Rather than trying to create artificial silk from scratch, Numata and his team decided to take a new approach and design a device that could mimic the biological ...

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science in Japan have successfully created a microfluidic device that can spin artificial spider silk. The device uses negative pressure to ...