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World's stickiest glue could make you walk up walls
"A new type of dry glue designed to mimic gecko feet is 10 times stickier than the gravity-defying lizards, and three times stickier than other gecko-inspired glues, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
'It's the stickiest dry glue yet,' said Liming Dai of the University of Dayton, who reported on the glue in the journal Science. 'Our sticky glue has a force 10 times that of gecko feet and three times more than previous sticky glues trying to mimic the gecko feet.'
A 1-inch (2.5-cm) square of the adhesive can support the weight of a 220-pound (100-kg) man climbing up a vertical surface, but it can be easily lifted and reapplied, an ideal material for, say, a Spider-Man suit.
Aside from helping people walk up walls, the glue could be used in electrical components without the need for soldering."
Learn more at: http://www.udayton.edu/News/Article/?contentId=18761 ; http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/322/5899... "A new type of dry glue designed to mimic gecko feet is 10 times stickier than the gravity-defying lizards, and three times stick... more -
Wanna Grip Like a Gecko?
Californian scientists are replicating the design of the gecko's nanohair-covered toes in the hope that one day we'll also be able to thumb our noses to the forces of gravity (at which point our nanohair-covered fingers would probably get stuck hilariously but disastrously to our faces...). Californian scientists are replicating the design of the gecko's nanohair-covered toes in the hope that one day we'll also b... more
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Dead Gecko Found in Bird Egg
The Australian Egg Corporation has expressed surprise at the discovery of a gecko inside a chicken egg.
Darwin doctor Peter Beaumont was cooking dinner when he cracked open the egg and found the dead gecko inside the shell.
Health authorities say the discovery is nothing to be alarmed about and it is being examined at a laboratory. The Australian Egg Corporation has expressed surprise at the discovery of a gecko inside a chicken egg. ... more -
Acrobatic geckos
New research has discovered that geckos, already rated as some of the world's greatest climbers, use their tail as a 'fifth' foot, that helps them climb up vertical walls, always ensure a 'feet first' landing and helps them pull slick triple backflips.
Ok, they can't do triple backflips, but the stuff they can do is still pretty impressive, not only can they use their tail as a fifth leg to help climb up vertical walls, they can use it to steady themselves if they take a slip, but most impressively the research discovered that when in windy situations the geckos tails "whipped around clockwise to turn the lizard right side up. Once the rotation is complete, the lizard spreads its legs and toes to parachute." The findings also claim that if necessary, geckos will even sometimes glide to safety using their tails to steer their bodies to desired landing spots.
Pretty cool considering their tails account for only 10% of their body weight. New research has discovered that geckos, already rated as some of the world's greatest climbers, use their tail as a 'fifth&... more -
Gecko inspires new 'internal Band-Aids'
Scientists at MIT have sited the gecko lizard as the main source behind their invention of "biorubber," a biocompatible, biodegradable bandage they hope will replace the use of sutures and staples in medical procedures. Scientists at MIT have sited the gecko lizard as the main source behind their invention of "biorubber," a biocompatible, bio... more
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