All Articles Tagged As: spiders

Now it's not just Spiderman that can scale the Empire State Building (8/30/2007)

Physicists have found the formula for a Spiderman suit. Only recently has man come to understand how spiders and geckos effortlessly scuttle up walls and hang from ceilings but it was doubted that this natural form of adhesion would ever be strong enough to hold the weight of real life Peter Parkers. ...> Full Article

For Spider-Strength Silk Go Back To Basics (6/6/2007)

If you want to spin silk like a spider then you need to rethink your starting material, Oxford University scientists have discovered. ...> Full Article