Study led by Oxford University found that spider silk ... When a silk thread is plucked like a guitar string, the sound it makes carries information about prey, mates and the structure of a ...

A single silk thread comes out of each. Jan explains ... Before it is extruded out of the spinneret, cribellate silk first passes through a sieve-like structure called the cribellum. Spiders that make ...

Researchers don’t know enough about spider silk structure and composition to understand why it ... which makes up the radial threads of the web. Using mass spectrometry, the team identified 18 ...

Dragline silk, the thread by which the spider hangs itself from the web ... a way similar to high molecular weight ones to increase their yield. On exploring the structure-property relationships ...

At the time, raw silk became the country's largest export, as the silk industries in France and Italy had been hit by an epidemic of silkworm disease. At one point, Japan was the world's biggest ...