Scientists have discovered novel proteins in velvet worm slime that could lead to strong, recyclable bioplastics. These ...

Spiders stretch their silk when spinning their webs. Researchers knew that this was important to strengthen the silk fibres but only now has it been discovered why. A new study reveals, through ...

Rachael is a writer and digital content producer at IFLScience with a Zoology degree from the University of Southampton, UK, and a nose for novelty animal stories. The velvet worm is pretty cute ...

Spiders use their hind legs to pull silk threads, strengthening them and making webs more durable. Northwestern researchers discovered that stretching aligns protein chains and forms more bonds, ...

It highlights the dedication of farmers who cultivate mulberry trees to feed silk worms, emphasizing the labor-intensive cycle from raising the worms to spinning silk from their cocoons.

Scanning electron microscopy images of fibers from engineered spider silk. To validate their computational findings, the Northwestern team used spectroscopy techniques to examine how the protein ...

Spider silk is one of the most fascinating natural materials known to humans. It is more flexible than rubber yet tougher than bulletproof Kevlar and five times stronger than steel on a weight per ...

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