Click here for up to $200 off your Helix Sleep mattress plus two free pillows! Free shipping within the US!
Spiders have a long and fabled history of being a notorious creepy-crawly, but their silk might just change that image. Here are six ways in which spider silk is being studied to improve life for human beings.
Hosted by: Hank Green
SciShow is on TikTok! Check us out at
———-
Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon:
———-
Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever:
Matt Curls, Alisa Sherbow, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Harrison Mills, Adam Brainard, Chris Peters, charles george, Piya Shedden, Alex Hackman, Christopher R Boucher, Jeffrey Mckishen, Ash, Silas Emrys, Eric Jensen, Kevin Bealer, Jason A Saslow, Tom Mosner, Tomás Lagos González, Jacob, Christoph Schwanke, Sam Lutfi, Bryan Cloer
———-
Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet?
SciShow Tangents Podcast:
Facebook:
Twitter:
Instagram:
#SciShow
———-
Sources:
Adhesion
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29514984/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04263-z
Insecticides
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25193285/
Conduction
http://www.ehu.eus/photothermal/MatLetter2014.pdf
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2902&context=facpub
Dragline Strength
https://www.nature.com/articles/35069000
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.biomac.8b00980
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169409X02000613
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/07/210720185821.htm
Alternative Plastic
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.358.6361.293
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/bm0607877
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190916101845.htm
Biological imaging
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2782642/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301817700_Spider_Silk_The_Mother_Nature’s_Biological_Superlens
Robotic muscle
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2782642/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190301160907.htm
Image Sources:
https://tinyurl.com/mwyjhja6
https://tinyurl.com/yzp69dd3
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/844000
https://tinyurl.com/y9jdyfh7
https://tinyurl.com/46shaskw
https://tinyurl.com/mry49fpc
https://tinyurl.com/yedaft2h
https://tinyurl.com/yv6ce7h7
https://tinyurl.com/5b9cne7x
https://tinyurl.com/keb28u7a
https://tinyurl.com/2fnhkuse
https://tinyurl.com/79fwm9t5
https://tinyurl.com/5eb42cv7
https://tinyurl.com/2wtm5pjh
https://tinyurl.com/5439fawm
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/595304
https://tinyurl.com/5y3c4f84
https://tinyurl.com/mb2dma5h
https://tinyurl.com/3wref4kj
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/729582
https://tinyurl.com/2ytszt8v
https://tinyurl.com/mpjpvd57
https://tinyurl.com/mrx4fb6z