Unfortunately, you land in literal hot water. Your worm brain can’t really process this, but you’ve just crashed into the teacup of legendary Chinese empress Leizu. As you die in the hot tea, your ...

Countless engineering solutions are hiding in plain sight. We just have to look more closely at the natural world.

The BAM-1 hybrids are the world's first silkworm for commercially viable recombinant spider silk production. By achieving ...

At an industrial park in the province, self-developed automated and digitalized production lines have enabled the stable mass production of silkworm cocoons. This integration of industrialized ...

Unlike traditional silks, Eri Silk is made from the broken cocoons of silkworms, a process that aligns with the principle of ...

08:34 This helps to eliminate variations in growth rate and increases cocoon production efficiency. 08:40 This equipment makes it possible to raise approximately 60,000 silkworms at once ...

The company’s lead product, Dragon Silk, begins as fibers drawn from the cocoons of transgenic silkworms. (Cocoon racks are shown in the main image.) Dragon Silk fibers (inset) are significantly ...

As an adult, she helps the honeybees – and other insects, too – by creating whimsical limited-edition sculptures and ...