It's not easy to look at a sea spider and see an animal so representative of its kind that it may help scientists sort out ...

Learn how Spinnova is revolutionizing the fashion industry with sustainable practices that minimize waste and water usage.

In an unexpected twist, a non-venomous spider has been caught poisoning its victims by lacing its silk wrappings with vomited ...

The bold question-askers at What If uncover how spider silk might be engineered to create next-generation bulletproof skin.

Matthew Dean, Sales Engineer and Head of the Medical Business Unit at maxon, explores how Newrotex and maxon are developing an innovative approach to overcome the common challenges of traditional ...

Its silk structure is the world’s largest web, spanning up to 25 meters, or about 82 feet. Though its creations are massive, the Darwin’s bark spider is far from most enormous spider ever ...

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 ...

The company’s first product, made from a silk protein synthesized by bacteria enhanced with a snippet of spider DNA, was used in 2015 by The North Face, in a prototype coat called the Moon Parka.

If scientists could figure out how to produce enough spider silk, the possibilities would be immense. It could be used in medicines and weaponry, armoured clothing and aerospace technology.

Though we are still not wearing shirts made by expressing spider silk genes in bacteria, I enjoyed reading about the individuals and companies who have tried to bring these kinds of silks to ...