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Malagasy Spiders Spin the World's Toughest Biological Material - ScienceNOW - 0 views

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Like an engineer accounting for a skyscraper swaying in the wind, Madagascar's Darwin's bark spider (Caerostris darwini) spins enormous, river-spanning webs that stretch and contract as the trees to which they're anchored bend this way and that. A new study finds that this spider's silk is the toughest biomaterial yet discovered.
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The spiders' colossal orb webs can span up to 2.8 square meters and are anchored by threads as long as 25 meters.
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A spider that builds sculptures ... of spiders - 4 views

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Weird...

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Ma Ru on 18 Dec 12

Cooool!

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How electricity helps spider webs snatch prey and pollutants - 0 views

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Tom Gheysens on 16 Jan 14

interesting article on spider webs as electrostatic catchers. Would be interesting to see if they also catch bacteria by this principle for the cleanrooms at ESA and the ISS...

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Mapping the spider genome: Surprising similarities to humans -- ScienceDaily - 1 views

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Tom Gheysens on 08 May 14

Looks like we are all spider men and women :)

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Spider Silk Grabs Electrically Charged Insects in Midair - 1 views

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Certain strands of spider silk are attracted to statically charged objects, according to a new study, enhancing an arachnid's ability to catch prey.

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Synthetic Spider Silk Capsules Assemble Themselves - 1 views

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johannessimon81 on 23 Sep 13

Get well, Tom! We urgently need you back.

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Tom Gheysens on 24 Sep 13

thanx it is strange, they keep saying they have this synthetic spider silk but there is absolutely no mention of the actual properties of the thing...for a few years now... And I remember we have tested some, way back and it was really bad.

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The Moroccan flic-flac spider: A gymnast among the arachnids -- ScienceDaily - 5 views

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New form of locomotion found in spiders. They say it could be used for a robot on Mars...don't immediately see how though. :)

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Ma Ru on 29 Apr 14

Before it gets out of control... I hope you realise that quoting "Science Daily" in the context of science is pretty much like using Daily Mail as your reference news agency?

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johannessimon81 on 29 Apr 14

I was just going to post the same story. Here is BTW a video of the intended type of robot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHo32JrkDRk&feature=youtu.be

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Dario Izzo on 02 May 14

True Marek :) The article does quote a Journal Paper though ..... published in zootaxa: a staggering 0.9 impact factor journal!! And watching the video you immediately understand why :)

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Ma Ru on 07 May 14

I of course watched the video and have trouble sleeping since.

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Nature's designs inspire research into new light-based technologies - 2 views

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Isabelle Dicaire on 19 Sep 14

Several recent papers on biomimetics and photonics, including works on structural colours, radiation shielding, spiders and more.

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LeopoldS on 20 Sep 14

including one for Tom: Structural color and its interaction with other color-producing elements: perspectives from spiders Bor-Kai Hsiung ; Todd A. Blackledge ; Matthew D. Shawkey [+] Author Affiliations Proc. SPIE 9187, The Nature of Light: Light in Nature V, 91870B (September 8, 2014); doi:10.1117/12.2060831

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">including one for Tom: Structural color and its interaction with other color-producing elements: perspectives from spiders Bor-Kai Hsiung ; Todd A. Blackledge ; Matthew D. Shawkey [+] Author Affiliations Proc. SPIE 9187, The Nature of Light: Light in Nature V, 91870B (September 8, 2014); doi:10.1117/12.2060831</div>

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pH-Dependent Dimerization and Salt-Dependent Stabilization of the N-terminal Domain of ... - 3 views

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LeopoldS on 22 Aug 11

how the spider silk gets so strong ...

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jmlloren on 24 Aug 11

C'mon Leopold! It is obvious from the title.

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LeopoldS on 27 Aug 11

:-)

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Spiders spinning electrically charged nano-fibres | Biology Letters - 2 views

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electrically charged spider web ...

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Compact single-shot metalens depth sensors inspired by eyes of jumping spiders - 4 views

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jcunha on 29 Oct 19

Making a jumping spider eye with nanophotonics and computer vision: depth from defocus with an integrated mentalens sensor! Some in the ACT might be familiar with the concept...

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Peacock Spider Dances to YMCA - YouTube - 3 views

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Really weird looking spiders (with horns and stuff...) - 4 views

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Brown Recluse Spider's Silk Is Strong and Really Strange - Wired Science - 0 views

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LeopoldS on 12 Oct 13

Fascinating! New type of spider silk?

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High-Speed Video Shows How Silk Draglines Help Jumping Spiders Steer - 1 views

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Extreme strength observed in limpet teeth | Journal of The Royal Society Interface - 3 views

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stronger than steel - small teeth of snail like creature ...

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Ma Ru on 19 Feb 15

According to a BBC news article it's actually stronger than Kevlar...

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Dario Izzo on 22 Mar 15

The spider silk is no longer the toughest natural material around.

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Cheetah, Gecko and Spiders Inspire Robotic Designs | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 1 views

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Tobias Seidl on 19 Oct 09

Bio-inspired robots. Cockroaches are also in.

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SPIDER SILK CONTRACTS LIKE MUSCLE -- Knight 212 (13): ii -- Journal of Experimental Bio... - 0 views

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Sahara: Forscher entdeckt rollende Spinne - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten - Wissenschaft - 0 views

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A spider that activly rolls to locomote. Unfortunately in german but nice video.

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Catapulting spider winds up web to launch itself at prey: study - 8 views

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