20 MILLION Year-Old Spider!! Unweaving Spider Silk
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[MUSIC] Think about this: Wherever you’re sitting right now, chances are there’s a spider nearby. Which means there’s also a spider web. And you should be excited about that, because spider silk is awesome. Spiders manufacture something stronger, stretchier, or stickier than just about anything humans have engineered. A thread of spider silk is nearly invisible, which is why you’ve probably walked through it with your face. Yet when it comes to strength, some spider silk fibers rival steel and Kevlar. Imagine this: A silk cord about the diameter of a garden hose could hold up a passenger jet. So how does such a tiny animal weave such an amazing material using nothing but its rear end? I wanted to find out, so I went to the American Museum of Natur...
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[MUSIC] Think about this: Wherever you’re sitting right now, chances are there’s a spider nearby. Which means there’s also a spider web. And you should be excited about that, because spider silk is awesome. Spiders manufacture something stronger, stretchier, or stickier than just about anything humans have engineered. A thread of spider silk is nearly invisible, which is why you’ve probably walked through it with your face. Yet when it comes to strength, some spider silk fibers rival steel and Kevlar. Imagine this: A silk cord about the diameter of a garden hose could hold up a passenger jet. So how does such a tiny animal weave such an amazing material using nothing but its rear end? I wanted to find out, so I went to the American Museum of Natur...
