Supers In The News

[ThaOGDreamWeaver]

An occasional thread for capery crossovers to our reality.

 

To kick off: Tufts University researchers have accidentally created… web fluid. Spider silk, based on fibroin proteins, is an incredible material which nerds around the world study for its tensile strength . But the ones used in labs used to take several hours to solidify. 
 

Then one day an assistant prof had been making proteins with a dopamine base, then cleaned his gear with acetone and forgotten to rinse it. 
 

The presence of these two chemicals caused the fibroin to harden instantly, overcoming years of engineering puzzles. Typically enough, the nerds then immediately worked out how to fire, spin and mix this stuff under light pressure, creating webshooters. The lines can already grab and pick up items 80 times their own weight, though there’s a way to go to match spider silk or supporting Tom Holland.

 

https://now.tufts.edu/2024/10/10/inspired-spider-man-lab-recreates-web-slinging-technology

 

 

Edited November 14 by ThaOGDreamWeaver