Here we will shed light on the true marvel of these creations. Many materials made by nature (biomaterials) far surpass ...

“When they spin silk out of their silk gland, spiders use their hind legs to grab the fiber and pull it out. That stretches ...

When a spider weaves its web, it stretches the silk with its hind legs. This gesture, far from being insignificant, aligns the protein chains and increases the number of hydrogen bonds between them.

Spiders don’t just spin webs—they engineer them. By stretching their silk as they spin, spiders strengthen the fibers at the ...

When they weave their webs, spiders pull their silk threads. New simulations show stretching during spinning causes the protein chains within the fibers to align and the number of hydrogen bonds ...

"Spider silk is the strongest organic fiber," Graham said ... which act like bridges between the protein chains to make up the fiber. The increase in hydrogen bonds contributes to the fiber's overall ...

Of the 50,000 or so known spider species, most of them do not spin webs. They still produce silk though, and they use it for some of the other purposes we have outlined above. Spiders who do not ...

"Spider silk is the strongest organic fiber," Graham ... which act like bridges between the protein chains to make up the fiber. The increase in hydrogen bonds contributes to the fiber's overall ...