Car manufacturers are trialing spider-silk bioleather in seats and interior components, probing the hard limits of automotive-grade performance.

Take a walk through a forest, and you’re bound to come upon a spider web stretching from one tree branch to the next. The intricacy of the web can leave a person in awe, but what is even more ...

Bioengineered spider silk sounds like sci-fi — but could it actually be strong enough to build a space elevator? In this video, we break down what a space elevator would require, why normal materials ...

Understanding how the stretching process strengthens spider silk is a key part of helping design stronger, biodegradable, silk-inspired materials for various applications. When spiders spin their webs ...

As one of the strongest materials known to science, spider silk regularly finds itself at the center of exciting engineering breakthroughs, and a new study involving a quick chemical bath could take ...

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 to ...

Silk proteins generated by bacteria engineered to convert polyethylene into this multipurpose material. Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Move over Spider-Man: Researchers at Rensselaer ...

Finer than human hair, five times stronger by weight than steel, and biocompatible, spider dragline silk is suitable for a variety of biomedical applications such as artificial ligaments and surgical ...