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A party that was going on happily suddenly turned into a crime scene where diners died from poisoning for unknown reasons.
Scientists have deciphered the genome of a Madagascar spider that produces the world's most durable and largest spider webs, and found a unique protein that makes spider…
The goat farm is one of the most unique and strange farms in the world when the goats here are bred with golden spiders to produce products at the same time as goat milk…
While many people think that they know enough about the horrors that spiders bring, a new study has announced their ability to capture prey and should learn.
Scientists have found a way to transform the bacterial gene to create a super strong spider silk.
If this research is scaled up, NASA could bring bacteria into future missions to space, to turn them into a source of new materials.
Spider silk has long been famous as the most enduring natural material. There are even spiders that release silk that are five times stronger than steel - like brown spi…
The world's largest and rarest silk cloth produced entirely from silk of the golden globe weaver spider displayed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York i…
Silk threads help Spider-Man move and defeat many enemies may not contain as much power as on film.
Spiders have a special trick that helps them move easily on glue-like filaments on their webs.
Creating cats, glowing fish, Vaccine bananas, bovine breeders ... is one of many crazy human genetic modification experiments that have been performed recently.
Studies on spider web have revealed the secrets behind the extraordinary structure of natural silk, which is a powerful weapon for multi-label species.
Over the years, many assumptions have been made to explain why spiders are not caught in their own nets. But until recently the answer to this problem has just been disc…
Xinwei Wang, a mechanical engineering expert at Iowa State University and colleagues, looked for heat-conducting materials and discovered great applications of spider si…
Now, German scientists have returned to the basics and believe that they have found the reason why spider silk becomes so strong.