These researchers are not related to Spiderman. Nevertheless, a group of scientists has produced an ultra-tough polymer fiber directly inspired by spiders. Their project involves making ...

For the first time anywhere, scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and from Germany have succeeded in producing self-assembled spider web fibers under laboratory conditions, outside of ...

(Nanowerk News) AMSilk, a spin-off of the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), has produced the world's first artificial silk fiber that is entirely made of recombinant spider silk proteins. The ...

Professors Frederick Gosselin and Daniel Therriault, along with their student Renaud Passieux from Polytechnique Professors Frederick Gosselin and Daniel Therriault, along with their student Renaud ...