Japan-based biochemist Ali Malay has long questioned traditional theories about how spiders make their silk. “The prevailing hypotheses seemed like magic, because, according to it, you suddenly ...

While spider silk proteins are something you can make in your garage, making useful drag line fibers has proved a daunting challenge. Now, a team of scientists from Japan and Hong Kong are closer ...

Charlotte’s Web didn’t go into great detail about the different types of silk that a spider can produce, but the video and screencap after the break give a rundown of how spiders make ...

Now, there are seven types of spider silks, but one has caught the eye of scientists worldwide. Randy Lewis: It's called dragline silk, and it's the silk that they use to make the framework of the ...

Real spider silk has two major components: Extremely rigid nanocrystals that make the silk sturdy and stretchy elastic polymers that make it pliable. That combination of tough and flexible makes ...

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories has developed transgenic silkworms to produce spider silk in commercial quantities.

Spiders are well known for the variety of methods they use to capture prey. Some are agile jumpers that pounce on their ...

Spider silk transmits vibrations across a wide range ... and the tensions and interconnectivities of the silk threads that make up the web.

Spider silk is like something out of a comic book. It is superstrong. Flexible. Elastic. When compared in terms of strands of the same diameter, it is stronger than steel, tougher than Kevlar (the ...

Luckily, you only need one spider web to make a single silk thread, so you don't lose anything while refining this specific recipe. Before you can turn your threads into fabrics, you will need to ...

CEO Dan Widmaier and a team of fellow scientists studied how spiders make silk to try and replicate that process using DNA samples similar to that of the arachnids. The silk fibers that spiders ...