Peregrine harvested a skein of silk thread that day. Once the caps were dry, Cutter, Miner and Peregrine took those to their spinning wheels to engage in the ancient practice of spinning, in this case ...

K. Annabelle Smith is a freelance writer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she covers all things interesting and strange for Smithsonian.com’s “Food and Think” blog. She spends her free time hiking ...

Artificial fibres that can collect water from the air, much like how spider silk gathers dew, could be used for large-scale water collection from fog. In places where the availability of drinking ...

Biobased artificial spider silk captures moisture and generates triboelectric power using simple water-based processing, offering an efficient and sustainable approach for water harvesting and low ...

The caterpillars that spin commercial silk can make much tougher or more elastic threads, depending on how fast they’re forced to spin. If this research finding is translated into a marketable process ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Researchers at Oxford Silk Group, part of Oxford University in the UK, filmed a spider silk harvesting session. Golden Orb Weaver spiders produce up to 80 meters of ...