A new discovery about the slime ejected by velvet worms could revolutionize sustainable material design, according to a study ...

A study on velvet worm slime reveals its ability to transform from liquid to fibre and back, thanks to unique proteins. This ...

The velvet worm is pretty cute as invertebrate predators go. A leathery rope of an animal with a fuzzy, velvet-like texture.

Hossain and his team’s technique, called embedded printing, involved depositing material into a gel mold ... and their colleagues were inspired by the slime produced by hagfish: an eel-shaped ...

DARPA wants space structures that are grown rather than built, and the building blocks for these new structures are living ...

are useful for various applications ranging from sensory hairs to the fibers that give hagfish slime its unique consistency. Unlike traditional 3D-printing methods, in which material is deposited ...