Mechanical engineers Daniel Preston and Faye Yap of Rice University have devised a method of using dead spiders to delicately grasp small object and other tiny animals.

I’m not sure if I shouldn’t mark this one as NSFW X).

I don’t often feel like science went too far, but necrobiotics might be a step too far… I tend to agree with this take against it.

  • Flying Squid
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    1 year ago

    I guess I just can’t get too broken up over experimenting with dead spiders. I have my doubts that it will have great utility anyway.