Computational analysis provides new insights into silk's mechanical properties that was unavailable experimentally ...

Simulations showed that stretching aligns protein chains and increases hydrogen bonds, which act like tiny bridges between ...

“When they spin silk out of their silk gland, spiders use their hind legs to grab the fiber and pull it out. That stretches ...

Spiders don’t just spin webs—they engineer them. By stretching their silk as they spin, spiders strengthen the fibers at the ...

When spiders spin their webs, they use their hind legs to pull silk threads from their spinnerets. This pulling action ...

The process of creating a web is a delicate and methodical task. A spider begins by releasing a silk thread into the wind, allowing it to attach to a surface. This initial strand forms the ...

Whether you are a fan of spiders or terrified of them, you can’t help but admire their ability to make webs. These ...

Scientists develop strong, flexible carbon nanotube fibers that retain energy storage capacity and conductivity after bending ...

Dragline silk, the thread by which the spider hangs itself from the web, is one of the strongest fibers; its tensile strength—a measure of how much a polymer deforms when strained—is almost thrice ...

When they weave their webs, spiders pull their silk threads. New simulations show stretching during spinning causes the protein chains within the fibers to align and the number of hydrogen bonds ...

The hagfish is an eel-shaped jawless fish that lives at the bottom of the ocean and produces slime/silk consisting of tens of thousands of very thin protein threads very similar to spider silk.

When spiders spin their webs, they use their hind legs to pull silk threads from their spinnerets. This pulling action doesn’t just help the spider release the silk, it’s also a crucial step ...