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Join Dr Sam Illingworth as he provides insight into new scientific research via the medium of poetry.
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Monday Sep 23, 2019
Monday Sep 23, 2019
This episode explores new research which has found that spider silk and wood fibres can be combines to create materials that are incredibly strong and tough, and which are also biodegradable and do not do not damage the environment in the same way as plastics and many other synthetics.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘Guide to Avian Architecture’ by Megan Synder-Camp here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Email: sam.illingworth@gmail.com
Twitter: @samillingworth
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