Spiders give some folks the heebie-jeebies, but web-weaving arachnids produce a unique, versatile material that could be the ...

Spider web silk has been used for fabric, wound care, and is now the topic of some amazing research. We all have seen the detailed construction of spider webs. Sometimes, when the morning dew is on ...

What would you rather wear: water guzzling cotton, petroleum-based polyester, or a crazy strong wonder material that comes from spider butts? The correct answer is spider butts — I mean, spider silk. ...

A study that combines experimental observations of spider webs with complex computer simulations has shown that web durability depends not only on silk strength, but on how overall web design ...

You might be vaguely aware of the benefits of silk, but what is mulberry silk and how do you use it? We unpack all the different ways. Our editors independently select these products. Making a ...

Catherine, Princess of Wales, has visited a silk mill to celebrate the British textiles industry. The princess visited ...

One of the headline features of Amazon's new Kindle Fire tablet is a completely new Web browser called Silk that is designed with a "split" architecture, allowing it to offload much of the heavy ...