In the animal kingdom, few are as sticky as geckos. Their ability to scamper up walls and across ceilings is delightful to ...

One of nature’s most fascinating engineers, the gecko, possesses an extraordinary ability: it can stick to vertical surfaces ...

Have you ever seen a gecko run up a tree or fence? They are very fast, and they seem to stick to just about anything! Wouldn’t it be fun if you could hang upside down from the ceiling or a branch like ...

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 ...

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

Researchers report using silicone rubber enhanced with zirconia nanoparticles to create a gecko-inspired slip-resistant polymer. They say the material, which sticks to ice, could be incorporated ...