High above the rivers of Madagascar, a small arachnid is quietly rewriting what I thought was possible in nature. The ...
A spider no larger than a coin has upended what scientists thought they knew about natural materials. Discovered in the wilds ...
The Darwin’s bark spider silk has a tensile strength of around 1.6 gigapascals, several times stronger than structural iron, ...
One of the strongest materials on the earth isn’t made in a factory or synthesised in a laboratory but spun by a creature barely two inches long. The Darwin’s bark spider (Caerostris darwini), found ...