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

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

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 ...

Gecko feet are covered in tiny little bristles or hairs called setae, which interact with the molecules of different surfaces to create an electric attraction called van der Waals force.