The sticky fibers are not made from spiders but from silk moth cocoons. In a study now published in Advanced Functional Materials, the authors describe boiling the silk moth cocoons to break down a ...

There are around 11,000 identified species of moths in the United States. Compare that to only about 750 species of butterflies and you can easily see that moths rule the day …or night, as it may be, ...

Children attending Story Time at the Wharton library’s main branch have been learning about the life cycle of Luna moths thanks to Jessica Garcia who is raising them with the kids. Garcia, the ...

The newly discovered substance, which the team said was found by accident, is made of silk fibroin (proteins from silk moth cocoons), dopamine, and organic solvents, according to a study published ...

While researching adhesives, Tufts University discovered that silk from moth cocoons can be turned into a shootable, sticky protein solution. The liquid silk, shot from a device, solidifies in air ...

Scientists claim to have developed a Spider-Man style silk adhesive made from moth cocoons. The researchers from Tufts University's Silklab in Massachusetts said they utilised silk fibroin from ...

Legend tells us that the Chinese empress Leizu founded the cultivation of silk from caterpillars over 5,000 years ago, after a silkworm moth cocoon plummeted into her steaming teacup, unraveling ...

The invention, developed in the Silklab at Tufts University, uses silk from moth cocoons. Researchers break down the cocoons into a protein called fibroin. This liquid silk is pushed through thin ...

While working on a separate project involving extra-strong adhesives, the Tufts University Silklab team discovered that the silk from silk moth cocoons can be turned into a shootable, sticky protein ...