US researchers say they have created genetically modified (GM) silkworms that spin silk far stronger and more elastic than the normal silk produced by the critter.

WASHINGTON, June 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former Wyoming Governor David Duane Freudenthal has joined the international law firm of Crowell & Moring LLP as senior counsel in the firm's Environment & Natural Resources Group, where he will advise on a wide range of domestic and international environmental and natural resources issues.

Scientists unexpectedly stumbled across data that could change the view of climate during the Eocene Epoch, some 50 million years ago.

A research and development effort has succeeded in producing transgenic silkworms capable of spinning artificial spider silks.

New evidence identifies critical variable imposing biological limit to running speed.