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Making music with spider silk

November 30, 2012by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

Continuing in the let’s-just-steal-this-from-nature vein, researchers are Boston University, MIT and Tufts University are looking at spider silk. It’s one of the strongest substances on Earth, even stronger than steel, and […]

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