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Unraveling another secret of spider silk—it's a cable
https://phys.org/news/2018-11-unraveling-secret-spider-silkit-cable.html
Their latest discovery is a surprise: The brown recluse does not spin a single strand of protein fiber.
"We were expecting to find that the fiber was a single mass," Schniepp explained. "But what we found was that the silk was actually a kind of tiny cable."