If spiders use their webs like a large external eardrum, researchers reasoned, perhaps spider silk could be the basis for a powerful listening device. Spiders, Acoustics, Ears and Hearing, Inventions and Patents, Engineering and Engineers, Research, Acoustical Society of America, your-feed-science, your-feed-animals, Silk and Silk Goods NYT > Health
If spiders use their webs like a large external eardrum, researchers reasoned, perhaps spider silk could be the basis for a powerful listening device.