Glass Silk Spinning Duct Mimics Those of Real Spiders

It's elastic, stronger than steel, it has light weight and we can't fabricate it. At least not up until now. After decades of trying to replicate it in experiments ranging all the way from lab dishes to silk-secreting goats, German researchers have succeeded in creating an artificia... [ read more >> ]

Garden spider spinning its web

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