spider
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Researchers have uncovered the molecular interactions that give spider silk its remarkable combination of strength and flexibility.
From Science Daily
While she sat there a fuzzy spider paced across the room.
From Literature
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The process resembles natural strategies seen in diving bell spiders, which carry air bubbles underwater, and in fire ants, which form floating rafts using their water-resistant bodies.
From Science Daily
Researchers examining spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, noticed something unusual on a spider only a few millimeters long.
From Science Daily
For common house plants like peace lilies and spider plants, brown leaves are a tell-tale sign of over or under watering.
From BBC
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