Our beautiful planet
February 10, 2017Advertisement
A spiderweb picked out in the morning sunlight and dew highlights nature’s incredible ingenuity. A deathtrap to insects, it’s nonetheless a thing of beauty to the human eye. The spider’s engineering prowess is inspiring too. Spider silk has incredible properties of strength and elasticity, and synthetic versions are being developed with technological applications from car parts to bullet-proof vests.
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