4. Spider Webs
Spider webs in your home might inspire you to invent a new way of running from the room screaming, but they also inspired some scientists to make a super-strong adhesive. Researchers noticed that the anchor points of the spider webs (where the web attached to something) were extremely strong.
After studying the matter further they realized the spider silk was wove in a particular geometric pattern at the anchor points lending to it’s strengths. They then tried this with polyurethane using a process called electro spinning to pull the thin filaments of polyurethane in the same geometric pattern. This allowed them to build the their own synthetic adhesive that could be useful in future for stitching a broken bone together so tightly that it heals much faster.
