Gabbard fires leaders of intelligence group that wrote Venezuela assessment Poison hemlock has spread throughout the US. Here's how to kill it. Congress pushes VA to explain why it regularly ...

CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful gene editing system that has revolutionized our ability to treat disease and probe the human genome. CRISPR has been used to edit the genomes of animals, plants, and microbes ...

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

Spiders are often referred to as insects, but this is incorrect. Although spiders and insects belong to the same massive ...

Gene-edited spiders had never been seen before. Then University of Bayreuth researchers used CRISPR Cas-9 to give spiders red ...

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

In 2018, Liangbing Hu, a materials scientist at the University of Maryland, devised a way to turn ordinary wood into a material stronger than steel. It seemed like yet another headline-grabbing ...

If you are wondering about how architects and crews can actually use this to build, you are not alone: If it’s stronger than steel, does it require special tools? According to Lau, contractors ...

A new startup claims it can mass-produce "Superwood," a material that's stronger and lighter than steel, with 90 percent lower carbon emissions compared to the widely used alloy. InventWood, the ...

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