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A new device developed by researchers in Japan spins artificial spider silk that closely matches what spiders naturally produce. The researchers, led by Keiji Numata at the RIKEN Center for ...

Nan Songer, a spider expert living in California, played an integral part in the Allies’ success in World War II by supplying silk for bombsights. Natalia Mesa was previously an intern at The ...

A spider web is much more than meets the eye. These intricate structures, created entirely from silk, allow spiders to capture prey, build shelter and even communicate. Spider webs are shockingly ...

Inspired by the natural wonder of spider silk, a team of researchers has created an artificial version with extraordinary ...

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 ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three ...

Tufts University biotechnology researcher Marco Lo Presti made an astonishing discovery while investigating how silk and ...

Known for its unmatched relative strength and flexibility, which could find uses in novel textiles, spider silk has long eluded efficient synthetic replication, in part because it has been ...