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Space Station Spiders Found a Hack to Build Webs Without Gravity – Gizmodo Australia
Experiments on the International Space Station suggest spiders can weave normal-looking webs in space — they just need a surprising resource. Spiders are capable…
Experiments on the International Space Station suggest spiders can weave normal-looking webs in space they just need a surprising resource.
Spiders are capable of building typical webs in microgravity, so long as they have access to a light source, according to new research published in Science of Nature. In the absence of gravity, and hence a sense of up and down, a light source provides a frame of reference for the spiders. When a light source is available, spiders will weave their normal asymmetric…
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