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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...