Scientists have discovered how geckos' feet stick to the smoothest of surfaces -- and have duplicated the trick with synthetic foot-hair tips. "It's like Velcro without the matching surface. The same ...

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 ...

Scientists at Oregon State University have discovered more details on how geckos are able to stick the soles of their feet onto surfaces, allowing them to climb vertically or hang from a ceiling. In a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The mystery of what makes geckos stick to just about anything -- a question that has puzzled scientific minds since Aristotle -- finally has been solved, according to a new study.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AKRON, Ohio — That little lizard that has become so effective selling car insurance — the gecko — can climb across glass windows and across the ceiling. You knew that, right? The science of that ...

A better understanding of geckos' gripping power in wet conditions may lead to improvements in bandages and sutures. Scientists already know that the tiny hairs on geckos' toe pads enable them to ...

Researchers have created a new material covered in what they call "gecko structures" that can be switched between sticky and slippery in an instant. It works using "artificially produced microscopic ...

The diminutive gecko is capable of some extraordinary feats of locomotion, zipping along vertical walls with ease and even running short distances across water. Precisely how they accomplish these ...