<p>  Tufts University biotechnology researcher Marco Lo Presti made an astonishing discovery while investigating how silk and dopamine allow mussels to stick to rocky surfaces. "While using acetone to clean the glassware of this silk and dopamine substance," he told Wired, "I noticed it was undergoing a transition into a solid format, into a web-looking material, into something that looked like a fiber." Lo Presti and his colleagues immediately got to work, investigating whether the sticky fibers could be turned into a "remote adhesive." The result is an astonishingly "Spider Man"-like silk that can be shot not unlike the superhero's […]</p>