Montana indie rock greats Silkworm, whose original run was 1987 – 2005, are reuniting for their first official shows in 20 years. The news came via Vish Khana’s Kreative Kontrol podcast, as band ...

Michael Dahlquist, the drummer for long-running indie band Silkworm, was killed July 9 in a tragic act of selfishness, when a suicidal woman rammed her car into he and his friends’ parked vehicle. But ...

As one of the strongest materials known to science, spider silk regularly finds itself at the center of exciting engineering breakthroughs, and a new study involving a quick chemical bath could take ...

Current methods for repairing injured nerves can be hit-and-miss and are restricted to repair over short distances. For the first time, researchers have combined two kinds of silk to create a ...

The most thorough genome sequence data so far for the silkworm, Bombyx mori, have been released by Chinese researchers. Taken together with sequence data previously released by a Japanese group, the ...

Chinese scientists have begun unlocking the genetic mysteries of the silkworm with research that they say could have an impact on silk production. In the study, the researchers sequenced more than ...

A silk worm which survived a trip from China to Fife has emerged as a moth. Linda Greenshields, who visited China with her daughters, got a surprise when she was unpacking at home and found a silk ...

The gene pool of silkworm resources at Southwest University in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality has been confirmed as a national gene pool of the species with the longest history in China, ...

Spider silk is a bit of a dream material, stronger than steel by some measures yet incredibly light and flexible. Obtaining spider silk, however, is a bit of a nightmare, as most spider species are ...