Spider silk, already known for its exceptional strength, reveals an astonishing manufacturing process. Researchers have discovered that stretching plays a key role in the solidity of these ...

Simulations showed that stretching aligns protein chains and increases hydrogen bonds, which act like tiny bridges between ...

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 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 ...

In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders ...

Researchers have found evidence that a common North American spider species alters its webs to deal with urban noise ...

The researchers found that funnel-weaving spiders alter how their silk webs transmit vibrations in response to local noise.

The project was led by Dr. Xiaoli Zhang, the Company’s research manager, whose team continues to push the boundaries of genetic engineering for spider silk production.

The results provide evidence for the hypothesis that spiders crouch to sense differences in web frequencies to locate prey ...

“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 ...