Utah State University graduate student Kyle Berg inspects new equipment within the USTAR Bioproducts Scale up Facility at Utah State that will allow scientists to mass produce spider silk and other ...

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Homeowners have dreamed of smart, connected houses for more than half a century, but most of us still live in glorified wood boxes. Today, the biggest players in tech — including Samsung, Google, and ...

Spiders’ webs aren’t something most people like to see in their houses – after all, they’re a sign of less than spotless cleaning. But for materials scientists at the University of Bayreuth in Germany ...

or decades, scientists and entrepreneurs have fantasized about creating lab-grown spider silk, which is renowned for its strength and softness. Slowly, a few companies have emerged that are able to do ...

In Lowell, a city known for its pioneering textile factories during America’s Industrial Revolution in the late 1700s, researchers are looking to spiders to optimize new types of fabric. Jessica Garb, ...

Apple has been on a AI-centric hiring spree this year, having lured over Google's former AI chief to head a new team combining its core machine learning and Siri groups as well as numerous software ...

Swedish scientist Dr. Anna Rising was among a team of researchers to discover how to synthesize artificial spider silk. She says they hope to use the strong silk in medical applications and textiles.

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