Revolution in Sight: an Australian Spider Makes Webs with Properties Never Seen in Any Material

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The Australian spider Asianopis subrupta is able to make threads with an elasticity and hardness never seen before. According to a study that has just published PNAS, the official magazine of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, this arachnid designs spider webs with a technical complexity that the human industry still fails to imitate. This throwing species, what basically does is "modify" the silk with its legs to create a bi…