Still Waters Posted January 28, 2013 #1 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Scientists at Arizona State University are celebrating their recent success on the path to understanding what makes the fiber that spiders spin – weight for weight - at least five times as strong as piano wire. They have found a way to obtain a wide variety of elastic properties of the silk of several intact spiders' webs using a sophisticated but non–invasive laser light scattering technique. http://phys.org/news...pider-silk.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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