What makes spider silk so extraordinarily strong and elastic at the same time? This was the focus of recent investigations ...

High above the rivers of Madagascar, a small arachnid is quietly rewriting what I thought was possible in nature. The ...

HANGZHOU, ZHEJIANG, CHINA, January 20, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- HANGZHOU, China —As global fashion and lifestyle ...

Silkworm thread has been turned into superstrong material that surpasses the strength of natural spider silks, according to research. Scientists have made it 70 percent stronger than a spider's silk ...

Silk beats both cotton and synthetic materials like polyester when it comes to homemade and reusable face masks, according to a new study from the University of Cincinnati. The material offers a ...

Engineers have created an environmentally friendly leather alternative made from silk. The material can be printed into different patterns and textures, has similar physical properties to real leather ...

More specifically, it’s the copper found in silk that could prove beneficial when using this material to craft a face mask. "Copper is the big craze now. Silk has copper in it. Domesticated silk moths ...

The treatment of nerve injuries with the aid of nerve guidance conduits has led to the desired regenerative success in some, but by no means all, cases. In a recently published study, a research team ...

Researchers discuss the properties of silk and recent and future applications of the material. It has been used in drug delivery and is ideal for wearable and implantable health monitoring sensors.

Current methods for repairing injured nerves can be hit-and-miss and are restricted to repair over short distances. For the first time, researchers have combined two kinds of silk to create a ...

First commercially available products using AMSilk’s biotech silk protein yarnsDemonstrating a scalable, low impact ...

WASHINGTON, January 4, 2022 -- While silk is best known as a component in clothes and fabric, the material has plentiful uses, spanning biomedicine to environmental science. In Applied Physics Reviews ...