Like many wonders of nature, spider silk has remarkable properties that makes it outshine its manmade counterparts to this very day: their threads have have the same tensile strength — the amount of “stretch” a material can endure without breaking — as steel, but is only one-sixth as dense.
When Spiderman used his web to halt a R160 New York City subway train before it plunged off the tracks, the results were realistic, according to new U.K. research.
Like many wonders of nature, spider silk has remarkable properties that makes it outshine its manmade counterparts to this very day: their threads have have the same tensile strength — the amount of “stretch” a material can endure without breaking — as steel, but is only one-sixth as dense.
When Spiderman used his web to halt a R160 New York City subway train before it plunged off the tracks, the results were realistic, according to new U.K. research.