Students James Forster, Mark Bryan and Alex Stone first calculated the force needed to stop the four R160 New York City subway cars. To do this, they used the momentum of the train at full speed ...

This is in line with web from a Darwin’s Bark Spider - an orb-weaver with the strongest known webbing of any spider. They concluded that the ‘friendly neighbourhood’ superhero’s webbing is indeed a ...

Like, "Could Spider-Man actually stop a speeding train with his webbing?" Think back to Spider-Man 2 (the Tobey Maguire one after the upside down kiss one, but before the black-and-white evil ...

In Spiderman 2, there is a dramatic scene where the superhero stops a runaway train with his spider webbing. Now, a group of physics students is claiming a spider's web really could stop a moving ...

Spiderman's webbing would be strong enough to stop a moving train, say physics students Date: February 25, 2013 Source: University of Leicester Summary: In Spiderman 2, the superhero uses his ...