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Corn silk may be better known to you as what you try remove from teeth after munching on a cob. However, it might be the next ...

We're not talking about the latest high-tech material developed in a lab somewhere, but one of nature's supermaterials — spider silk. Spiders make many different kinds of silks. Orb-weaver spiders, ...

Scientists developed a method to make silk-based materials that refuse to stick to water, or almost anything else containing water. Molded into forms like plastic, or coated onto surfaces as a film, ...

How do you decorate the underside of a leaf? Why you hang your eggs there of course. How do you capture tasty river morsels? Well you'd want to make a net. You need a miracle substance to make this ...