spider web Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:18:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Spider Webs Might Future’s Most Effective Air Pollution Filters https://www.greenoptimistic.com/spider-webs-air-pollution-20140116/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/spider-webs-air-pollution-20140116/#comments Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:18:23 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=45189 Finding effective ways to clean up pollutants from the air has become quite a challenge for quite a number of scientific teams. An interesting approach was taken by researchers from University of Oxford, where the group studied the electrostatic properties of spider webs. They discovered that the glue, which covers the web, attracts not only […]

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