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RC Yu•6 months ago
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Spiders on drugs

Was listening to some old episodes. Digging OG co-host Lynne Koplitz (no offence Chuck)! Anyway, in Space Spin-offs (Season 1 Episode 5!), Neil explains NASA's 1995 experiment on spiders. Scientists basically gave spiders a bunch of drugs, to see how it affected their web-spinning. I looked up the paper, and sharing the visuals here just cuz!

From https://web.archive.org/web/20070704003310/http://science.nasa.gov/faq/NASA%20Tech%20Brief.pdf
  1. Technology tuned to the stars, brought down to Earth. Learn about the many products in our lives that were developed because of the space program.
  2. 1995 | David Noever, Raymond J. Cronise, Rachna A. Relwani | NASA Tech Briefs | (1995)
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