By adding chitosan and borate buffer, the researchers were also able to enhance the fibers’ strength and adhesiveness. This ...

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.

Researchers at Tufts University’s Silklab have developed a silk-based sticky fluid that instantly turns into a fibrous material when ejected, evoking the gravity-defying, web-slinging powers of the ...

Marvel Animation's Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man has been spotlighted at New York Comic Con with artwork that offers ...

Man's sticky web fluid. While researching adhesives, Tufts University discovered that silk from moth cocoons can be turned ...