Smart Tape Like Gecko Feet

Inspired by the gecko feet, University of California, Berkeley have created a new kind of tape.
Conventional adhesive tape sticks when pressed on a surface. A new gecko-inspired synthetic adhesive (GSA) does not stick when it is pressed into a surface, but instead sticks when it slides on the surface. A similar directional adhesion effect allows [...]

Smart Thinking by Moose

 Pregnant moose in Yellowstone Park have been moving closer to the public roads and camps to take cover from their road-shy predators: the bear. Read more…