'Creation' explains how science reinvents life
Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - 15:00
in Biology & Nature
Adam Rutherford discusses evolution and delves into the political and cultural fallout of synthetic biology.Spider webs combine a strength and elasticity unmatched by anything we humans can make. They don't trigger much of an immune response in us and are "insoluble in water, two facts that the classical Greeks exploited when they used cobwebs to patch bleeding wounds," notes science writer Adam Rutherford.