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

Thanks to Tufts researchers, there’s now a solution that shoots, solidifies and even picks up objects. Alas, you can’t use it ...

Spider silk is incredibly lightweight, yet tougher than many synthetic materials, making it a marvel of natural engineering. How Spiders Create Webs The process of creating a web is a delicate and ...

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

but the Swedish bridge spider produces eight varieties of silk. To narrow their investigation, they focused on the major silk type, which makes up the radial threads of the web. Using mass ...

SPIDER SILK! This kid is trusting his life to a flimsy-looking strand of arachnid goo! But it turns out if Peter's web is anything like real spider silk, then his web-slinging antics are more ...

focusing particularly on dragline silk, which is a particularly strong variety used for the radial lines in webs and also when spiders suspend themselves by a thread. This variety, known for its ...

Narrator: A spider's web is more than just a spider's house. This homemade, glistening material has some spidey strength of its own. Spider silk is tougher than Kevlar, more flexible than nylon ...

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

Wow. Now, the plan is to find ways to do something with the mass-producible silk. We love the idea of growing tough-as-nails cargo pants or black widow web-shooters. Spider senses not included.

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 ...