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An artificial spider web, engineered by Ross Hatton of Oregon State University.
An artificial spider web, engineered by Ross Hatton of Oregon State University. With NSF funding, Hatton has teamed up with a spider biologist to probe the physics of spider webs. This artificial structure allows Hatton to precisely measure vibrations in the spider web, feeding into a computational model that will then be tested with real-life spiders.
Credit: Andrew Otto, Oregon State University
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