Tuesday, February 7, 2017

For some time now, scientists have been working on a way to make synthetic spider silk. Although they have made great strides in the area, nothing compared entirely to the real deal. That is, until recently when they made a breakthrough.  This year, scientist figured out how to make the synthetic silk almost as strong using only the protein from ten rice grains. This spider silk is even easy to mass produce, which was another problem scientists were running into.
For more on this discovery, check out this link:
https://cosmosmagazine.com/chemistry/new-synthetic-spider-silk-that-s-almost-as-strong-as-the-real-thing

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