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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...