The number of times I have walked into a spider web is pretty comical. At first, I saw them as a nuisance during my forest ...

“Spider silk fibers and glues represent a fantastic ... the sticky lines so that the spider can tackle its food. A special glue that is synthesized in the spider’s aggregate glands makes ...

"Spider silk goes through this sort of stretching before ... attaching each filament to a stationary object with a tiny dab of glue. The foot repeats the process until it is secure enough to ...

that difference might make spider glue easier to produce in a lab than silk. Stellwagen sees great potential for spider glue applications as organic pest control. After all, she says, "This stuff ...

The silk spiders produce to create their webs ... glue must adapt to different levels of humidity. To understand how spider glue stickiness adapts, Ayoub and her colleagues focused on two species ...

In recent years we've seen a number of attempts at artificially replicating the strong-yet-light characteristics of spider ... as a form of adhesive. When spiders want to join a silk fiber to ...

Scientists claim to have developed a Spider-Man style silk adhesive made from moth cocoons. The researchers from Tufts University's Silklab in Massachusetts said they utilised silk fibroin from ...

spinning the silk from worms as a spider might. Silkworm silk typically consists of protein fibers sheathed in a glue-like substance. That glue helps the silk fibers stick together in cocoons ...

“Spider silk fibers and glues represent a fantastic model for answering ... These lines are made sticky by an aqueous glue synthesized in aggregate glands. The glue absorbs water from the atmosphere ...

If you've ever accidentally walked into a spider's web, you know the adhesive strength and unique feeling of the silk from the web as you frantically try to get the material off of your body.

Uses for spider silk are limited only by imagination ... It can be whipped up into a glue stronger than the best adhesive products on the market. And... “It can be used for electronics, for ...