Sorry, Kevlar. Spider silk loaded with carbon nanotubes may be the burliest fiber around. When spritzed with the tiny tubes, spiders spin superstrong, supertough ...

Every Friday afternoon before Shabbat, S.Y. Agnon would prepare a sign to hang on his front door. Written in his iconic and almost illegible Hebrew cursive script, the sign read: “Here lives a Jew who ...

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Scientists have created motors tiny enough to swim through your blood vessels and spidery enough to spin strands of polymer thread. Sen hopes to develop versions of microspiders that can run on ...

Scientists have discovered new uses by spinning carbon nanotubes into longer fibers with additional useful properties. Researchers have found that carbon nanotube threads work well as an antenna ...

Twelve-thousand years ago, people in a coastal village in the Levant used stone weights on their spindles to spin thread faster and more evenly—and, some archeologists are arguing, in the process they ...

To his proponents, Kim Kraig Thompson is a Spider-Man who has spent the past 10 years trying to coax threads of spider silk from silkworms for rip-resistant apparel, surgical bandages that promote ...

The University of Cincinnati has long been known for its world-record-breaking carbon nanotubes. Now researchers at the University of Cincinnati have discovered new uses by spinning carbon nanotubes ...