The glue that gives spider webs their stickiness is a form of spider silk protein. Researchers can imagine cool uses for a synthetic version – but had to wait for the tricky glue gene to be sequenced.
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Some of the things we discard - like urine - can actually be useful resources.
Advanced materials that seem like they come from Star Trek are becoming reality today.
How do a frog's tongue and saliva work together to be sticky enough to lift 1.4 times the animal's body weight? Painstaking lab work found their spit switches between two distinct phases to nab prey.
Making a material impact – how auxetic materials could make sports stars safer.
Theoretical physicists are caricatured in the popular imagination as only involved in abstruse and difficult-to-imagine topics. But some of these theoretical physicists are involved in something closer…
Cocoa, rice and vegetable waste could soon be turned into environmentally-friendly plastic. American Chemical Society scientists…
Researchers have produced a material able to mimmic the shock-absorbing and lubricating characteristics of cartilage. Previously…
A new biomaterial has been shown to encourage regrowth of damaged nerve cells in the brain and spinal chord. Xyloglucan is…
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