Harnessing the properties of spider silk has been a longstanding ... But the potential for silk as ballistic body armor had been recognized more than two centuries earlier, by Leibniz.

By simulating spider silk in a computational model ... high-performance, blast-proof body armor. The study appears in Science ...

By simulating spider silk in a computational model ... high-performance, blast-proof body armor. The study will be published on Friday (March 7) in the journal Science Advances.

The story of silk is full of the extraordinary. First Paraguay and Suriname have caterpillars larger than any in Europe, ...