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1 March 2007
Creating artificial substances that are both stretchy and strong has long been an exclusive engineering goal, and inspired by spider silk - a naturally-occurring strong and stretchy substance - MIT researchers have now devised a way to produce a material that begins to mimic this combination of desirable properties.