Researchers have developed a method that turns silk moth cocoons into a shootable, sticky protein solution that works ...

Scientists have created a fluid which when shot from a gadget becomes a strong sticky fibre that can lift very heavy objects.

It’s straight out of a comic book: a shot of liquid silk quickly hardens into a sticky, strong fiber that can lift objects 80 ...

Man, using it to swing through the air or lift objects. Researchers at Tufts University have turned that fantasy into a ...

A mention of silk moths may conjure up images of China where, for millennia, fibers teased from cocoons of domesticated silk moths (Bombyx mori) have been used to manufacture silk, and the ...

A mention of silk moths may conjure up images of China where, for millennia, fibers teased from cocoons of domesticated silk moths (Bombyx mori) have been used to manufacture silk, and the producers, ...

Researchers have long sought to create strong fibres that could be deployed as tethers, inspired by the silk secreted by ...

Every kid who has read a comic book or watched a Spider-Man movie has tried to imagine what it would be like to shoot a web ...

In less than a decade, the village of Nagaa Awni in El Beheira Governorate has undergone a remarkable transformation, emerging from poverty to become a thriving production powerhouse, all thanks to ...

Newly developed fibres have demonstrated the capability to lift objects weighing over 80 times their own weight ...

While working on a project to create super-strong adhesive using a silk moth protein known as fibroin, researcher Marco Lo ...

Inspired by the fantastical abilities of comic book superheroes, researchers at Tufts University have developed a real-life ...