My last big work on spider silk is coming out! We discovered that spider silk does not behave like many people think, and that sometimes with just three bottles you can get more than four types of drinks!
Enjoy the read
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2026/sm/d5sm01141h
#science #spider #spidersilk #biology #nature #mechanics #engineering #physics
Stronger than steel, softer than skin.
A new era of medicine is being woven, literally! We explore how a Latvian biotech company is biomimetically synthesizing spider silk, nature's most perfect fiber, to create clot-resistant heart valves and scaffolds for lab-grown organs. This is the future of implantable tech.
Read about "The Iron Thread": https://medium.com/@makalin/%EF%B8%8Fthe-iron-thread-how-biotech-is-weaving-spider-silk-into-the-future-of-human-organs-ed25846413b9
#SpiderSilk #Biotech #MedTech #RegenerativeMedicine #Nanotechnology
#Arachtober 12: a small yellow sac spider (_Cheiracanthium_) perches on a fence post and releases a stream of silk strands that are separated and carried aloft by the breeze and (as we've learned in recent years) atmospheric static electricity. If the silk catches on something, the spider can use it to bridge a long gap. Smaller spiders can be borne aloft entirely and traverse long distances, a behaviour called ballooning.
#ArthroBeauty #SpiderSilk #SpiderBehaviour #spiders #Araneae #Cheiracanthiidae
“Threaded Silence”
Genre(s): Nature Photography
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#butterfly #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #butterflyphotography #closeupshot #summerlight #silverspottedskipper #telephotolens #spidersilk
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Watch NIGHTWISH Vocalist FLOOR JANSEN’s Entire Wacken Open Air 2025 Solo Show; Pro-Shot Video
#FloorJansen #Nightwish #WackenOpenAir #Wacken2025 #AfterForever #ReVamp #Northward #WolfAndDog #SpiderSilk #Amaranth
Update: managed to get a look at the spider that made the wonky web. It's hard to see from these photos (didn't have my macro stuff on me), but it has only one leg on the right side!
That could account for its messy web, I think.
#DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiderwebs #SpiderSilk • #Araneae #Araneidae
you ever see a spiderweb that makes you go "girl are you ok???"
(second photo is what the web's supposed to look like. A _Zygiella_ missing-sector orbweaver.)
obligatory "spiders on drugs" video, before you all send it to me: https://youtu.be/sHzdsFiBbFc
and the Travis McEnery video about how orb webs are made, including the backstory of the real "spiders on drugs" experiments: https://youtu.be/8U5KKdhXsgA
#DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #spiderwebs #SpiderSilk • #Araneae #Araneidae
BTW, here's what a long-jawed orbweaver egg sac looks like when complete. (I had to go home before our gal upthread was completely finished with hers, but got a pic of this fresh one by a spider who was making hers at around the same time.)
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