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Spiders Figured Out How to Build Webs in Space – Nerdist
Scientists have found that golden silk orb-weaver spiders use light instead of gravity to guide the building of their webs in space.
Because we’re ever curious about space, we Earthlings have sent everything from slime to robots to Baby Yoda to the International Space Station (ISS). People have also sent spiders to the ISSmultiple timesdespite the fact that sounds like the plot of a B movie. Now, a new study says spiders in space(!!!) have learned how to build normal webs in microgravity without issue. But only if the astronauts leave the lights on.
The Independent reported on the study, which was recently published in the journal…
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