Public radio’s longest-running daily global news program.
©2025 The World from PRX
PRX is a 501(c)(3) organization recognized by the IRS: #263347402.

Spider silk is five times stronger than steel and figuring out its structure is one research project at the ISIS Centre in the United Kingdom. There, scientists use special equipment to study materials at the atomic level.
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.