But this isn't a new lab-built 'wonder material': It's spider silk, and scientists say they have cracked a key part of the process arachnids use to make it. Scroll down for videoScientists say they have unlocked a key secret to the process spiders use to create ultra-strong silk. Alongside colleagues at San Diego State University, Dr Gianneschi studied the web-spinning apparatus of black widow spiders. Researchers found that black widow spiders use a complex cluster of proteins called amphiphilic spherical micelles to create silkBut the new study shows that these fibres start out as complex, compound micelles that are clustered together. This unique structure forms a core part of the black widow spider's impressive fibres - though precisely what remains unknown.

Source: Daily Mail October 22, 2018 18:56 UTC