In fact, it’s scalable enough that customers can walk into a store, pick up a spider silk hat, and wear it on their walk home. Home-Brewed Silk Five years ago that would’ve been unthinkable.

If you’re not a fan of creepy, crawling critters then we probably can’t keep you from squealing at the mere sight of an insect, even if it’s a spider named for the Sorting Hat from Harry Potter.

Harvesting spider silk is a difficult problem, not only because you need a lot of spiders to make a usable amount, but because it’s challenging to keep spiders in captivity–they tend to eat ...

The sorting hat is what the new arrivals at Hogwarts where to decide which house they will be put in. Javed told the Times of India: "We are very excited to have found this new spider whose shape ...

A newly discovered spider that looks like the famed "sorting hat" of "Harry Potter" fame has the name to prove it. Eriovixia gryffindori shares a shape similar to the hat that in the wizarding ...

However, the scientists who discovered the spider noted that its body shape also bears a striking resemblance to the sentient, rhyming Sorting Hat at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.