Spider silk is incredible stuff. It is one the strongest materials in the world for its weight, and its potential uses are hugely diverse, from building armor to creating artificial skin and helping ...

Researchers have found that spider silk produces a strong twisting motion when exposed to humidity, and may be usable for future artificial muscles or actuators. Spider silk, already known as one of ...

A strand of spider silk roughly 10 centimetres long can twist itself through nearly 100 rotations when exposed to moisture, an attribute that might be useful for making artificial muscles. During the ...

It's no secret that spider silk is one of nature's most incredible materials. It's light and stretchy, as strong as steel and tougher than Kevlar – and now scientists have discovered a weird new ...

Nephila pilipes spider on a web. Credit: Liu et al., Sci. Adv. 2019; 5 : eaau9183 Spider dragline silk exhibits a unique self-powered actuation, controlled simply by tuning relative humidity, ...