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It has five times the tensile strength of steel and is stronger than even the best currently available synthetic fibers: Spider thread. Scientists have now succeeded in unveiling a further secret of ...

Sorry, Kevlar. Spider silk loaded with carbon nanotubes may be the burliest fiber around. When spritzed with the tiny tubes, spiders spin superstrong, supertough ...

Scientists have, for the first time, created a biosynthetic spider silk that behaves like the real thing. And they may soon make it even stronger. Spider silk is among the strongest and toughest ...

Italian researchers have discovered that common backyard spiders, when sprayed by carbon nanomaterials, can produce silk several times stronger than the most resilient spider thread known. Their work ...

“How does a spider spin a web of silk that is five times stronger, on a weight-to-strength basis, than steel?” asked an ABC News story recently. Scientists are working hard to solve that mystery, ABC ...