Spider Silk made real

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SMAC - the game that keeps on giving

Until quite recently, spider silk had the highest tensile strength of any substance known to man, and the name Silksteel pays homage to the arachnid for good reason.

Commissioner Pravin Lal
"U.N. Scientific Survey"

Scientists have now found that they can make spider silk even tougher by infiltrating some metal atoms into the spider's handiwork.

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/04/metal-enhanced-spider-silk-tougher-than-the-original.ars