Spider Silk Created Without Spiders - Science

Spider silk is one of the strongest materials known to man. A strand just 3 cm thick would be able to stop a speeding train. But despite huge efforts by scientists to recreate this material, that spiders have been making for millennia, the ability to manufacture silk in a lab has proved illusive. That is until now, researchers from the University of Bayreuth in Bavaria, Germany say they have created an artificial spider silk as durable as the real thing with the help of bacteria found in the… READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2015/04/23/sc... euronews knowledge brings you a fresh mix of the world's most interesting know-hows, directly from space and sci-tech experts. Subscribe for your dose of space and sci-tech: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... Made by euronews, the most watched news channel in Europe.