Monday, July 2, 2012

Silk - If spiders and worms can do it, why can't we?



Biomimetics is a fascinating field in which scientists take inspiration from the natural world to improve out technologies. Here a video from the National Science Foundation looks at one of the major struggles that scientists are trying to overcome in making artificial spider silk - particularly at the difficulty in storing liquid spider silk until it is solidified after it comes through the spinnerets.

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