Those spider webs dangling from the ceiling in the corner of your room are made up of one of the strongest materials ever known. So strong, it could soon transform the way bridges, planes, ships and perhaps even the Internet are built.
Researchers at MIT are working to replicate the properties and patterns they’ve seen in spider webs, noting they could help create more damage-resistant synthetic materials and design principles that might apply to networked systems such as the Internet or the electric grid, according to MIT News.
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