This is how spiders weave webs in space without gravity
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A team of scientists from Switzerland and the United States say that spiders are able to use light to orient themselves while weaving their webs in the absence of gravity in space.
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Spider And Web Woven In Zero Gravity by Nasa/science Photo Library
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Spiders need lots of space to show their stuff
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Space spiders build webs in an unusual way
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Why are there often spider webs in abandoned space ships or space stations in movies? Are there spiders in space? - Quora
Midsci - Humans have taken spiders into space more than once to study the importance of gravity to their web-building. What originally began as a somewhat unsuccessful PR experiment for high school
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Do Spiders Think? Psychology Today Canada
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Spiders Figured Out How to Build Webs in Space - Nerdist
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Arachnauts: NASA Sends Spiders to Space for Experimentation – Here's What They Found
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Why a faster spinning Earth is expected to make 2021 the shortest year on record
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Space Spiders – The Loh Down On Science