The Silklab at Tufts is a misnomer in a sense. While the lab is working with silk, a textile humans have been using for over ...

Silk craft villages have dotted Vietnam for hundreds of years. They make silk by hand in a tedious, 30-step process. Craftspeople feed the silkworms every four hours so they spin brilliantly ...

New Delhi [India], April 1 (ANI): The raw silk production in the country stayed at 34,042 metric tonnes (MT) till January 2025, registering an uptick, Pabitra Margherita the Minister of State (MoS ...

The fiber is paler, softer, and stretchier than the bright yellow silk that worms produce. Unlike worm silk, each thread of lotus silk starts with the stem of the lotus flower, and every single ...

Scientists have discovered novel proteins in velvet worm slime that could lead to strong, recyclable bioplastics. These proteins have a history dating back 380 million years and work like cell ...

Inspired by the toughness of the natural silk fibers produced by aquatic caddisfly larva, bioengineer Russell Stewart formulated a hydrogel that mimics the mechanical strength of the silk fiber.