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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Scientists untangle the scientific web of black widow spider venom They also found a ... the fibres picked up a “steel bolt, a laboratory tube floating on water, a scalpel partially buried ...

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 ...

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