Gecko feet have long been a source of inspiration to scientists striving to make superstrong, reusable adhesives. Now researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found a new way to make such an ...

Geckos are living, breathing party tricks: their sticky feet let them walk along ceilings and up and down walls. Institute Professor Robert Langer and Jeffrey Karp, a bioengineer in the Harvard-MIT ...

A professor at UC Berkeley has invented a tape-like substance that has so much adhesive strength that a person clothed in such a sticky suit could conceivably scale a building like Spider-Man. But ...

(Nanowerk News) To solve practical issues, sometimes all we have to do is study nature. An often quoted example is that of the gecko, a small animal known for the phenomenal adhesive strength in its ...

Geckos' feet are right up there with adhesive tape, when it comes to being able to stick to things. Unlike tape, however, those feet retain their adhesive qualities even after many, many uses. Now, ...

Mimicking the agile gecko, with its uncanny ability to run up walls and across ceilings, has long been a goal of materials scientists. Researchers have now taken one sticky step in the right direction ...

As it scurries along the ceiling, a gecko has the sticking power to support not just its own body weight, but about 400 times as much. Besides that sticking power, the natural adhesive on this ...

When Ars last examined the state-of-the-art in gecko mechanics, researchers were measuring the strength of single fibers from the bottom of their feet, hoping to gain insights into how these translate ...

KEEP your eye on the shelves of your local hardware store, where in the next few years you may be able to find new tape from an unlikely source: the gecko. “Geckos have millions of microscopic hairs ...

Geckos are able to walk upside down across glass ceilings because of the arrays of submicron-scale hairs on their feet. Now, a team of scientists from the Centre for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology at ...

Cross a gecko with a mussel and what comes out is a new type of adhesive tape that can repeatedly stick and restick, even underwater. Geckos and mussels both have astounding abilities to stick. The ...