Researchers come from all over the world to a one-of-a-kind facility called the ISIS Center in the United Kingdom. There they use special equipment, such as super microscopes and proton accelerators, to study materials at the atomic level. Deutsche Welle Radio’s Naomi Fowler gets a tour by a scientist who looks at the amazing properties of spider silk.
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