Exploration · first seen 1 Sep, updated 1 Sep
A high-school student’s idea sent two spiders to a US space station to see whether they could still spin a web with no gravity to hang it from, and they did, building lopsided, confused webs at first before adjusting, and one of the spiders, named Gladys, turned out on return to be male and was renamed Gladstone.
When gravity vanished, two orbiting spiders revealed something surprising: they could still dance their ancient geometry, just not quite the way evolution taught them. The post A high-school student’s idea sent two spiders to a US space sta…
Summary from SpaceDaily.