When a US research lab accidentally created a sticky, web-like substance, it turned to Peter Parker and comic-book lore for ...

There are seven broad types of spider webs, and each is created in a unique way. In this article, we find out about their ...

‘Silk: Spider Society’, the live-action series of Sony’s Spiderverse announced in 2020, will no longer see the light, as Amazon has canceled the development of the Prime Video production ...

Our Future Chronicles column explores an imagined history of inventions and developments yet to come. In its latest ...

This homemade, glistening material has some spidey strength of its own. Spider silk is tougher than Kevlar, more flexible than nylon, and thinner than a single strand of human hair, making this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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