An Australian spider spins a web that stretches by 150% and snaps back without breaking—a material never seen before.

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An extreme close-up of the Australian rufous net-casting spider's unique silk, captured by biologist Martín Ramírez and his colleagues, reveals in intricate detail the material qualities that make ...