Utah State University graduate student Kyle Berg inspects new equipment within the USTAR Bioproducts Scale up Facility at Utah State that will allow scientists to mass produce spider silk and other ...

Researchers have created a plant-based, sustainable, scalable material that could replace single-use plastics in many consumer products. (Credit: Xampla) The artificial “silk” product is manufactured ...

Envisioning a device the U.S. Navy is developing with Utah State University synthetic spider silk conjures images you'd expect in a James Bond thriller. Think strong, stretchy fibers wrapping ...

Spider silk is one of the wonder materials of nature. It is strong, light, supple, and biodegradable yet stronger than steel. The slender silk spun by spiders is 30 times thinner than a human hair yet ...

or decades, scientists and entrepreneurs have fantasized about creating lab-grown spider silk, which is renowned for its strength and softness. Slowly, a few companies have emerged that are able to do ...

It may not look like a bunch of cobwebs, but the tie you see above was spun from the same material spiders spin out from their behinds. The difference is this thread was mass-produced from fermented ...

We've built skyscrapers, planes that travel faster than sound and particle colliders a mile below the Earth's surface. Yet in some ways, the humble little house spider has got humans beat: The silken ...

{{youtube:medium|Ok1p7zfjeVA}} Rabbit, a brown-recluse spider, is fastened to the proverbial treadmill in Hannes Schniepp’s Nanomaterials & Imaging lab. She is restrained but relaxed. Her spinnerets ...

Spider silk has been grown from genetically modified cells for the first time. The research company behind the feat believes it opens the way for the manufacture of super-strong, light and ...

Swedish scientist Dr. Anna Rising was among a team of researchers to discover how to synthesize artificial spider silk. She says they hope to use the strong silk in medical applications and textiles.