We're not talking about the latest high-tech material developed in a lab somewhere, but one of nature's supermaterials — spider silk. Spiders make many different kinds of silks. Orb-weaver spiders, ...

With two pairs of fine-tipped tweezers and the hands of a surgeon, Cheryl Hayashi began dissecting the body of a silver garden spider under her microscope. In just a few minutes she found what she was ...