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[|Latest News on Spider Silk]

[|"1 Million Spiders Make Golden Silk for Rare Cloth"] Sciencific Journalist Hadley Leggett interviews the project leaders responsible for weaving the 11-foot by 4-foot textile comprised entirely of spider silk which was exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City in September 2009. Leggett accounts the procedure and conflicts Simon Peers, Nicholas Godley and peers had overcome, such as working with liquid proteins and determining an efficient method of harvesting an abundant amount of spider silk. A picture of the exquisite textile patterns is provided to visualize the fourty years of hard effort taken by the team of 70 people to comprise the largest spider web textile in the world. 

[|"Bullet-Proof Skin', Made With Spider Silk And Goat's Milk, Created By Scientists"] A short article and video published in the Huffington Post, displays current research being conducted by Dutch scientists that have engineered extra-strong spider silk from goat milk, and simulated into a layer of human skin creating "bullet-proof" skin. The video displays an experimental assessment of the skin's durability against shooting bullets and shows its successes and it's limitations.

[|"Golden Spider Silk Cape"] Video interview with the project leaders Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley of the golden spider silk cape.Peers and Godley take you in depth to the making of the spider silk cape, and the "labour of love" and commitment is expressed as labour intensive procedural steps are shared with the audience. The extensive patterns on the cape are displayed on zoomed-in footage presents a close up of the extravagant unique piece of art.

[|"A Spider Web's Strength Lie's in More than Its Silk"] In this news article an interview is conducted with Markus Buehler, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT, on his recent published paper on his research of the incredible strength and design on spider webs. The article also explains how spider silks unique molecular structure unfurls as stress increases, which leads to a stretching effect instead of puncture, which can be used to demonstrate further the strength of the silk.