Science news articles about 'silks'

... for spinning short strands of artificial spider silk. The new strands are less than half a millimeter ...

... explains that if we’re to learn how to manufacture spider silk, we have to understand the relationship between the components and the spun fibre ... realised that the different mechanical properties could be accounted for by the silk proteins’ amino acid composition. According to Gosline ...

When they're hunting smaller insects, the arachnids save energy by producing weaker silk threads that are easier to make, new research finds.

Metalmark moth caterpillars are now the only creatures other than spiders known to use silk threads to detect intruders, a new study says.

A researcher collects spider silk strands and combs through glands to find the genetic blueprints for silk making.

An arachnid with no talent for weaving may have excreted the first known spider silk 386 million years ago.

... of China -- along what would later become known as 'the Silk Road' -- scientists report ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Spider silk is already tougher and lighter than steel, and now scientists have made it three times stronger by adding small amounts of metal.

... tissue." The research capitalized on Tufts' knowledge of silk-based biopolymers and biophotonics and the expertise of UIUC ... , the ability to biochemically functionalize or incorporate dopants into the silk-fibroin ink allows for unconventional photoactivation ...

Researchers have found that an Australian insect produces silk as a liquid droplet that dries – a method that might be easy to copy.

Researchers demonstrate a new way to make silk-based optical waveguides that are biocompatible, biodegradable ...

... , researchers have now developed implantable silicon-silk electronics that almost dissolve completely inside ... , 250 nanometers-thick transistors on a thin silk substrate, the researchers have demonstrated that their circuitry is thin ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO scientist Dr Tara Sutherland and her team have achieved another important milestone in the international quest to artificially produce insect silk.

What causes water to collect on spider webs on dewy mornings? New research probes the structure of spider silk to find out

... . These threads were as strong as threads drawn from the honeybee silk gland, a significant step towards development ... from a sufficiently concentrated and viscous mixture of the recombinant silk proteins. "In fact, we had to draw them twice ...