Your move, limpets. Earlier this year, the long-reigning champion of the Strongest Biological Material Competition, spider silk, was usurped by the upstart limpet teeth. But we all knew that the arachnids would not go quietly into the night.

In an unorthodox move, the spiders have teamed up with human scientists to produce the strongest fiber ever known, incorporating graphene into their silk.

In a paper published in ar.Xiv, researchers described how they sprayed a group of unsuspecting spiders with a mixture of water, carbon nanotubes and graphene, then measured the strength of the silk they produced.

The results were basically a reverse of the Spiderman origin story. Instead of a human getting bitten by a radioactive spider and developing superpowers, the spiders were sprayed by humans, and got our amazing gift of...manipulating nano-materials?