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Engineers discover strongest natural material (design-engineering.com)
44 points by DiabloD3 on March 3, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


> NASA Engineers discover strongest natural material

What the heck is up with the title? Nowhere in the article does it contain "NASA" and this is by a UK university anyway...


> Mimicking their structure, the researchers say, could lead to stronger and lighter composite materials.

News like this makes me weep for all the data that has been lost forever to us with the mass extinction of smaller lifeforms over the past couple of centuries.


Bugs with steam powered weapons, for example? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_beetle


strongest known natural material


Oh great, now we can enjoy Limpet-man (and its sequels)




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