When spiders spin their webs, they use their hind legs to pull silk threads from their spinnerets. This pulling action ...

When they weave their webs, spiders pull their silk threads. New simulations show stretching during spinning causes the protein chains within the fibers to align and the number of hydrogen bonds ...

Spider webs combine complex principles of physics and chemistry to create one of the world's most remarkable substances. We explain how.

When spiders spin their webs, they use their hind legs to pull silk threads from their spinnerets. This pulling action doesn't just help the spider ...

An encounter with a golden orb weaver or a Banana Spider. Take a closer look. One of your silk strands extends from the thorax to the very heart of the web. This strand serves as her lifeline ...

This exquisitely brocaded, vibrantly coloured shawl and cape are the world’s largest pieces of cloth to be made from spider silk. The silk was painstakingly harvested from more than one million female ...

One year later, Gamzina launched Elve, a Davis-based startup to manufacture high-performance amplifiers that customers could ...