Spring is the time when many spiders emerge from their winter hiding places and start doing what they do best: spinning webs.

The curious minds at What If reveal how gaining the ability to make spider webs like Spider-Man would transform your physical ...

Spiders make their webs from silk, a natural fibre made of protein. Not only does spider silk combine the useful properties of high tensile strength and extensibility, it can be beautiful in its own ...

there are seven types of spider silks, but one has caught the eye of scientists worldwide. Randy Lewis: It's called dragline silk, and it's the silk that they use to make the framework of the web ...

While spider silk proteins are something you can make in your garage, making useful drag line fibers has proved a daunting challenge. Now, a team of scientists from Japan and Hong Kong are closer ...

To narrow their investigation, they focused on the major silk type, which makes up the radial threads of the web. Using mass spectrometry ... ocean,” Arakawa said. Spider silk could decrease the ...

[Justin] has to make his recurrent silk look unique all the way through ... growing tough-as-nails cargo pants or black widow web-shooters. Spider senses not included.

Spider silk transmits vibrations across a wide range ... tensions and interconnectivities of the silk threads that make up the web.