Companies spend thousands developing a project for the market, hoping their investment will return big. Investing like this happens every day and won’t shock anyone. What may surprise you is someone ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Move over, mycelium. The new year is kicking off with a new next-gen material in mind: the queen of fibers. Silk is one of the ...

Spider silk is often touted as some of the strongest material on Earth: According to some calculations, it can be up to five times stronger than steel cable of similar weight—though that comparison is ...

Individual silk protein molecules, or “silk fibroins” (blue), are deposited on a graphene surface surrounded by water (green and red spheres) and grow into an atomically precise two-dimensional (2D) ...

Gram-for-gram spider silk is the strongest stuff around. Now a company in Utah and California has a plan to make a supercar out of it. Spidey Tek uses research from Utah State University’s Synthetic ...