A luxurious fiber once reserved exclusively for emperors in ancient times has been brought back to life by Korean researchers ...

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

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 ...

We synthesized and characterized a new family of diblock copolymers based on the amino acid sequences of Nephila clavipes major ampulate dragline spider silk, having the form HABn and HBAn (n = 1–3), ...

That intricate web glistening with morning dew in your garden isn’t just nature’s artwork – it’s part of a fascinating ...

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 ...

Spider silk has many uses, but web construction is one of its most fascinating applications. Webs are not just traps; they are carefully constructed structures, created through a combination of ...

Deep within the abdomen of spiders are silk glands. 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 ...

AMSilk announced its entry into the consumer care market with two new silk protein-based products: AMSilk4Shine and AMSilk4Care. AMSilk4Shine offers a sustainable, high-performance alternative to ...

The scary-looking, ominously-named wolf spider is actually a beneficial insect. Wolf spiders belong to the class Arachnida and are members of the family Lycosidae (derived from the Greek word lycos, ...

Recent development and applications of calibrated, fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based tension sensors have led to a new understanding of single molecule mechanotransduction in a ...