This has enabled them to do something that had previously eluded scientists — create a system that mimics how spiders spin silk and is capable of mass-producing artificial spider silk fibres.

Jumping spiders don’t build webs, but like their arachnid kin, they can produce silk. Some species are known to spin fine threads as they leap, presumably to stabilize takeoff and ensure a more ...

Compared to its size, spider silk possesses exceptional tensile strength that outperforms steel. Unfortunately, spiders are ...

Now, a team of scientists from Japan and Hong Kong are closer to replicating artificial spider silk using microfluidics. Based on how spiders spin their silk, the researchers designed a ...

This phenomenon typically transpires following periods of high heat and fog. Spider colonies, comprising up to 500 members, ...

In spiders, silk forms by traveling through a long ... Another factor to consider is the layering effect. “We would like to spin artificial spider silk that contains multiple layers to hopefully ...

Now, a team of scientists from Japan and Hong Kong are closer to replicating artificial spider silk using microfluidics. Based on how spiders spin their silk, the researchers designed a ...

Spinning the web from silk takes a spider quite a long time. This film has been speeded up. It takes a spider much longer than this to build its web. Spiders spin their webs round and round in a ...

filmed a spider silk harvesting session. Golden Orb Weaver spiders produce up to 80 meters of silk at a time. Produced by Kevin Reilly. Video courtesy of Oxford University. Follow TI: On Facebook ...

These spiders spin large webs in which females suspend a ... on their hind legs that they use to cover their prey with silk once it has been trapped. To feed, black widows puncture their insect ...