Spider dragline silk as torsional actuator driven by humidity (1 of 7) (IMAGE)

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Spider dragline silk as torsional actuator driven by humidity (1 of 7)

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Nephila pilipes spider in Lab. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 1st, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by D. Liu at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, and colleagues was titled, "Spider dragline silk as torsional actuator driven by humidity."

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[Credit: Liu <em>et al.</em>, Sci. Adv. 2019; 5 : eaau9183]

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