Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled with the wonders of the universe as she is. When she's not daydreaming about flying through space, she's daydreaming ...

Spiders give some folks the heebie-jeebies, but web-weaving arachnids produce a unique, versatile material that could be the textile of the future. They spin a silk that’s as strong as steel, ...

After decades of trying, scientists may have finally found a way to make body armor out of spider silk. Aside from being very cool, this would mean ultra-lightweight, super-strong, flexible body armor ...

When choosing a fabric to make a homemade face mask to protect against the novel coronavirus, silk is better than cotton, namely when used in conjunction with a respirator, according to a new study ...

Though the days of pajama pants on Zoom are hopefully over, many people still strive to integrate comfortable loungewear into their wardrobe. Silk pajamas are one example of a sleepwear-loungewear ...

Ultra-thin layers of silk deposited on graphene in perfect alignment represent a key advance for the control needed in microelectronics and advanced neural network development. After thousands of ...

If you’ve ever woken up with tangled, frizzy hair and lines across your face after a night of tossing and turning, you may ...

A flexible battery made of gauzy silk films could power electronics and then melt away after a preset number of days (ACS Energy Lett. 2017, DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00012). The biodegradable ...