Spiders Adapt to Space, Weaving a Near-Perfect Web

[/caption]The educational experiment currently being carried out on the space station has just returned a surprise result. It would appear the two web-weaving spiders being studied have turned their fortunes around – they have scrapped their aimless 3D mess of silk and started to create the symmetrical 2D webs more commonly seen on Earth. The … Continue reading Spiders Adapt to Space, Weaving a Near-Perfect Web