{"id":231111,"date":"2026-02-11T14:03:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/spider-silk-is-stronger-than-steel-and-now-we-know-why"},"modified":"2026-02-11T14:03:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:03:48","slug":"spider-silk-is-stronger-than-steel-and-now-we-know-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/spider-silk-is-stronger-than-steel-and-now-we-know-why","title":{"rendered":"Spider Silk Is Stronger Than Steel and Now We Know Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spider-silk-is-stronger-than-steel-and-now-we-know-why2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By uncovering the molecular interactions that give spider silk its remarkable properties, researchers have revealed principles that could inspire advanced materials and shed light on biological processes far beyond the spider\u2019s web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By uncovering the molecular interactions that give spider silk its remarkable properties, researchers have revealed principles that could inspire advanced materials and shed light on biological processes far beyond the spider\u2019s web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}