Spiders give some folks the heebie-jeebies, but web-weaving arachnids produce a unique, versatile material that could be the textile of the future. They spin a silk that’s as strong as steel, ...

However, the pleasant feeling quickly gives a sour taste when you consider how silk is produced. PETBOOK reveals how it works ...

Catherine, Princess of Wales has been spotted wearing a scarf made of a luxury fabric which she was gifted during a visit to ...

As September comes to a close, edie and our innovation partner Springwise shine a spotlight on six of the month’s most ...

Ultra-thin layers of silk deposited on graphene in perfect alignment represent a key advance for the control needed in microelectronics and advanced neural network development. After thousands of ...

Individual silk protein molecules, or “silk fibroins” (blue), are deposited on a graphene surface surrounded by water (green and red spheres) and grow into an atomically precise two-dimensional (2D) ...