Just in time for Halloween, one of the biggest, most active web-spinning spiders in San Diego has come back out to play.

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 ...

Tufts University researchers have created a web-slinging material that solidifies mid-air, lifting objects up to 80 times its ...

Researchers at Tufts University have developed a new technology making Spider-Man’s web-slinging a reality. The device can ...

The stream of liquid silk quickly turns to a strong fiber that sticks to and lifts objects - although not yet villains.

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

Researchers at Tufts University took inspiration from the world of comic books and nature to create a groundbreaking ...

The researchers demonstrated this by picking up a cocoon, a steel bolt, a laboratory tube floating on ... you will find that spiders cannot shoot their web. They usually spin the silk out of ...

Scientists have developed a fluid that turns into a strong sticky fibre when shot out of a gadget to lift objects several times its weight – a breakthrough inspired by comic book superhero Spider-Man.

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

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 ...