Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy for the spiders' tiny muscles to support.

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Kraig Biocraft Laboratories has just made a scientific breakthrough by creating a new type of silk inspired by caddisflies, ...

Building these strong yet ephemeral traps is a process that follows patterns shared among spider species. But is there room for individual variation that makes one species' web — or one individual ...

A team of international researchers has used a new 3D-printing technique to create microfibers just 1.5 microns thick. As ...