Study of velvet worm slime could revolutionize sustainable material design

ScienceDaily
May 6, 2025, 5:09 pm214 ptsTop
A new discovery about the slime ejected by velvet worms could revolutionize sustainable material design. The findings outline how a naturally occurring protein structure, conserved across species from Australia, Singapore and Barbados over nearly 400 million years of evolution, enables the slime's…

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