Essentially, the tufts of tiny hairs on gecko feet get so close to the contours in walls and ceilings that electrons from the ...

Geckos are able to maintain a grip on wet surfaces not because their toe pads repel water, but because they attract it. A new ...

Slips and falls account for millions of injuries each year. Researchers in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces took ...

Traditional anti-slip materials, such as natural rubber, repel water. But on ice, this approach can backfire. The pressure ...

A new study suggests that a tree-dwelling salamander may be able to control its grip on trees' bark by pumping blood in and out of the tips of its toes. This rather crafty strategy could one day be ...

The gecko foot is made up of well-aligned fine microscopic (3–130 μm in length) hairs called setae, which are split into hundreds of smaller nanoscale ends (0.2–0.5 μm in diameter) called ...

An illustration of a gecko spatula, a nanometer-scale structure on the animal’s toes that contribute to its grip. The green sheets represent keratin proteins. The gray squiggles represent lipid ...

The setae are bendy and ultra-flexible, allowing them to follow and stick to the contours of the surface they are on — no ...

If one of your hairs were a mile wide, a nanometer would only take up one inch of it! A gecko’s attraction to surfaces like walls, ceilings and branches depends on thousands of tiny hair-like ...

Furthermore, unlike most gecko species, leopard geckos have long, thin toes with small claws. These claws lack sticky toe ...