It’s straight out of a comic book: a shot of liquid silk quickly hardens into a sticky, strong fiber that can lift objects 80 times heavier. Sound familiar? Researchers have described the ...

Researchers have come up with an incredible breakthrough that even Spider-Man would be jealous of. They’ve developed a new technology that creates strong, sticky fibers capable of lifting objects and ...

Every kid who has read a comic book or watched a Spider-Man movie has tried to imagine what it would be like to shoot a web from their wrist, fly over streets, and pin down villains. Researchers at ...

Researchers took the imaginary scenes from Spider-Man seriously and created the first web-slinging technology in which a fluid material can shoot from a needle, immediately solidify as a string, and ...

Researchers say they’ve created real-life web-slinging technology like something straight out of “Spider-Man.” Their prototype won’t have you swinging from buildings anytime soon, but it does nail the ...

Researchers at Tufts University's Silklab have developed sticky fibers inspired by spider silk that may be the closest real-life example of Spider-Man's web shooters we've ever seen. These fibers are ...

Spider-Man is one of, if not the most popular superhero on the planet, and anyone who is a fan of Peter Parker has once imagined what it would be like to be able to shoot a web out of their wrist and ...

Why it matters: Scientists from Tufts University are one step closer to replicating the silk secreted by spiders, and the "accidental breakthrough" could eventually lead to sci-fi style web-slinging ...

If spiders use their webs like a large external eardrum, researchers reasoned, perhaps spider silk could be the basis for a powerful listening device. By Jordan Pearson Engineers and scientists have ...