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 ...

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

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 ...

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.