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SpiderMindy to the Rescue: How Spider Silk Can Help the Planet! (7/24/23)

Wow in the World

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Spider-Mindy's Spider Web

A human-sized spider web would be strong enough to trap up. Thomas Fingerling was reading about how researchers used plant proteins to replicate or copy the silk that spiders create to spin their webs. "Spider silk is one of the strongest and most durable materials on earth" If we could supersize a spider web to human size, it would be five times stronger than steel.

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