Delicate threads of spider’s silk are about to solve a major problem in photonics: how to make hollow optical fibres narrow enough to carry light beams around the fastest nanoscale optical ...

Famous for its strength, flexibility, and light weight, spider silk has a tensile strength that is comparable to steel of the same diameter. In addition, it is biocompatible (meaning that it can be ...

Despite centuries of human use of silk fibres from silkworm cocoons, and an emerging industry devoted to making artificial silk, questions remain about how insects produce it. New work in vitro ...

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Spider’s silk is already tougher than steel — but physicists in Germany have now found that it can be made even stronger by adding small quantities of metal. The discovery could help researchers ...

The study credits AMSilk’s fabrication process, which biosynthesizes silk-based protein polymers without the resource-intensive rearing of silkworms. Credit: Shutterstock The “Cradle-to-Gate” study, ...