Mysteries of spider silk strength unraveled
Monday, January 28, 2013 - 11:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Scientists 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.