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 ...

Scientists say they have created muscle fibers that are 100 times more powerful than human muscles, using only ordinary fishing line and sewing thread. They hope the muscles can help people who wear ...

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 ...

Ordinary sewing thread can have superhuman power. That’s according to researchers at UT Dallas who discovered fishing line and sewing thread can be cheaply converted to powerful artificial muscles — ...

This wouldn’t be the first artificial muscle on the market: there are carbon nanotube yarns and metal wires, but they’re often expensive or store relatively low amounts of energy compared to their ...