An international team led by The University of Texas at Dallas has discovered that ordinary fishing line and sewing thread can be cheaply converted to powerful artificial muscles. The new muscles can ...

Researchers have transformed everyday plastic fibers into super strong artificial muscles just by twisting them like rubber bands until they coil up. Since these materials are cheaper than high-tech ...

Scientists have discovered that ordinary fishing line and sewing thread can be cheaply converted to powerful artificial muscles. The new muscles can lift a hundred times more weight and generate a ...

We tend to dream of a future enabled by miraculous materials—nanoscale honeycomb lattices of strong, ultralight superconducting metals. Carbon nanotubes and graphene come to mind. Fishing line and ...

An international team of researchers, including three from South Korea, have created an artificial muscle that is 100 times more powerful than human ones by using ordinary fishing lines and sewing ...

Twisted fishing line could one day power realistic robots and prosthetic limbs, according to a new study. An international team of researchers led by scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas ...

Forget push-ups. The key to superhuman strength can be found in everyday items like sewing thread and fishing line. Through extreme twisting, these polymer fibers can be transformed into artificial ...

All it takes is a little twist, and fishing line and nylon carpet fibers may soon star as the latest in high-technology clothing and industry, report scientists. The secret isn't in complex ...