Spiders don’t just spin webs—they engineer them. By stretching their silk as they spin, spiders strengthen the fibers at the ...

Scientists at the Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, have created a new kind of robot that can spin its own body parts and pathways, just like a spider spinning its web. This means that ...

When they weave their webs, spiders pull their silk threads. New simulations show stretching during spinning causes the protein chains within the fibers to align and the number of hydrogen bonds ...

To narrow their investigation, they focused on the major silk type, which makes up the radial threads of the web. Using mass spectrometry ... “We would like to spin artificial spider silk that ...