Cracking the Code of the World's Strongest Spider Silk

Biophysicists at MIT have made a breakthrough in their investigation of spider silk, discovering that the fibers consist of at least two outer lipid layers and tightly packed fibrils in a linear arrangement. The researchers used advanced microscopy techniques to examine the silk without damaging it. Spider silk is renowned for its strength, resilience, and elasticity, and if scientists can crack the code to synthetic spider silk, it could revolutionize industries from bulletproof vests to construction materials.