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‘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 ...

Tufts University biotech researcher Marco Lo Presti accidentally discovered a "remote adhesive" that acts like Spider-Man ...

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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 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 ...

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 ...

Kraig Labs structured the SEPA to allow the Company to access capital over the next 36 months, when and how it determines best for the growth of spider silk production and end-market development. The ...