Violin Strings Made from Spider Silk - as part of the news and politics series by GeoBeats.

Did you know that spider silk is five times stronger than steel?

Known for its remarkable properties, spider silk has now been used by a Japanese researcher to create violin strings!

According to BBC, Shigeyoshi Osaki of Nara Medical University used thousands of strands of silk to form these strings.

For a long time, scientists have been exploring many uses of spider silk in medicine, warfare, and clothing.

Incredibly, it is even tougher than Kevlar - as much as 3 times. It can also be stretched significantly without breaking and can withstand extreme temperatures from -40 degree Celsius to 220 degrees Celsius.

Here's an example of a beautiful and rare fabric created from spider silk exhibited at National Museum of American History.

Spiders weave silk webs usually 20 times their own size. A major use of such webs is to catch prey as it sticks to the web. What's fascinating is that the spiders create non-sticky parts in the web that only they know about and can traverse their own without getting stuck.

While spider silk holds lot of potential, it's difficult to harvest because spiders are carnivorous and can eat each other. But for now, we can rejoice knowing that violin with strings made from spiker silk sounds amazing!