(Nanowerk Spotlight) Spider silk is a fascinating biopolymer that is stronger than steel and more elastic than rubber. Most of the world's 40,000 species of spiders produce a silken thread that ...

“All natural” just got a bit more interesting. Companies Polartec, provider of sustainable textile solutions, and Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, a biotechnology company centered on the development and ...

Germany’s AMSilk – one of the world’s leading makers of bio-engineered silk – has inked a deal with Airbus to create a new spider silk-based material that could be used to build a lightweight, ...

“Back to the Silk Road” is performed at the Xinjiang Great Theater on April 24, 2019. [Photo by Hujjatullah Zia] I was filled with an outpouring of nostalgia for the ancient Silk Road as charming ...

Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak recently released “An Evening with Silk Sonic,” their debut album, and are now making the rounds. Supergroup Silk Sonic, whose sound is inspired by the soul music of the ...