Whether you are a fan of spiders or terrified of them, you can’t help but admire their ability to make webs. These fascinating and unique structures are incredible feats of engineering that combine ...

Researchers used the light-guiding properties of spider silk to develop a sensor that can detect and measure sugar concentrations based on refractive index. The sensor is made from silk from the giant ...

The composite-intensive, V12-powered Gordon Murray Automotive T.33 Spider. One hundred will be hand-built. Photo Credit, all images: Gordon Murray Automotive Gordon Murray, who has been involved in ...

Spider silk has long been admired for its strength and durability, and producing it has been a goal of researchers. They anticipate uses as varied as surgical thread and soft body armor. It hasn't ...

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories set a distinctive tone with a detailed Christmas shareholder letter that framed 2025 as the company’s inflection year, marking its transition from prolonged development ...

The prospect of exploiting spider silk's combination of optical and mechanical properties has been an attractive proposition to designers for some time. Back in 2008 a project at Tufts University ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers have harnessed the light-guiding properties of spider silk to develop a sensor that can detect and measure small changes in the refractive index of a biological solution, ...