🔊 This is what a spiderweb sounds like.
It is an eerie, foreboding, reverberating tune, enough to send a tingle down your spine reut.rs/32cASfQ
From communication to construction, spiderwebs may offer an orchestra of information, says Markus Buehler, engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has been using artificial intelligence to study them
🕷️ Buehler and his team of researchers created 3D models of spiderwebs when the arachnids were doing different things - such as construction, repair, hunting and feeding
They then listened for patterns in the spider signals and recreated the sounds using computers and mathematical algorithms.
'Spiders utilize vibrations as a way to communicate with the environment, with other spiders,' Buehler says
Buehler hopes his team’s work could enable humans to understand the language of a spider and one day communicate with them.
There are more than 47,000 species of spiders, and all spin silk webs to provide housing and catch food
Scientists say the silk from a spiderweb is five times stronger than steel.
The living structure of a spiderweb could lead to innovations in construction, maintenance and repair, Buehler says.
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