This fashionable ski jacket is made from spider silk grown by bacteria
Spider silk is just amazing -- and now we can finally use it in clothes.
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Spider silk could lead to a new generation of microphones and hearing aids
Spider silk in your ear? For once, that sounds like a good idea.
Scientists combine spider silk with graphene, create incredibly powerful web
The best part? The spiders themselves produce it.
Eco-friendly artificial spider silk mimics one of nature’s strongest materials
The artificial spider silk is non-toxic and the manufacturing process is sustainable.
New engineered spider silk material could lead to better wound stitches
Scientists believe they might have finally untangled the method of creating spider silk-like materials.
Spiders weave graphene-infused silk: the strongest of both worlds
Graphene - the one atom thick sheet of carbon arranged in a hexagon lattice - is the strongest material known ...
Scientists use lasers to unravel mysterious spider silk strength
Pound for pound, spider silk is one of the strongest materials in the world; it's about five times stronger than ...
Spider Silk Conducts Heat as Well as Metals
Xinwei Wang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Iowa State studies thermal conductivity - and he had a funny feeling ...
