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Researchers have created a plant-based, sustainable, scalable material that could replace single-use plastics in many consumer products. (Credit: Xampla) The artificial “silk” product is manufactured ...

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 ...

Silk is often used for a range of applications like making surgical sutures and drug-delivery systems or wearable devises like hearing aids, due to the fibre’s superior mechanical properties 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 ...