Scientists have cracked a key mystery behind spider silk’s legendary strength and flexibility. They discovered that tiny ...

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 ...

Kraig Labs has engineered and refined proprietary production strains designed for durability, consistency, and high yields of recombinant spider silk. These production lines have been advanced through ...

Spider silk is stronger than steel by weight and scientists believe bioengineered strands could make the impossible space ...

An ancient ancestor of spiders and relatives doubled its genome about 400 million years ago, setting the stage for the ...

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 ...

In these glands, they have the chemical components already put together to produce silk, but it’s in a liquid form. When spiders want to produce a strand of solid silk, they have to pull this strand ...

Spider webs are made from a protein fiber which we call silk. It is both strong and stretchy but not all spider silk is the same, there are several different types. Spiders produce silk using special ...

The number of times I have walked into a spider web is pretty comical. At first, I saw them as a nuisance during my forest adventures, but upon a closer look with my macro lens, I began to notice that ...

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