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Spider silk is stronger by weight than steel

Spider silk is stronger by weight than steel
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Spider silk is stronger by weight than steel

Shahzad Mahota Published By Shahzad Mahota @shahzad-mahota

Spider silk is stronger by weight than steel

Dragline silk’s tensile strength and toughness beat steel on a weight-for-weight basis — inspiring armor and medical scaffold research.

Farming spiders at scale is impractical, so labs chase synthetic and bioengineered copies of the fiber.

Thread that stops flies also stops engineers in their tracks. Nature spun a material science homework assignment.
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Spider silk is stronger by weight than steel