You’ve heard of a “frog in your throat,” but probably not like this. By Asher Elbein On a hike through a sweaty Peruvian jungle in 2016, Kim Roelants, a biologist at Vrije University Brussel in ...

Inspired by the toe pads of tree frogs and crickets, researchers in India have created a form of sticky coating that is both strong and reusable. When conventional adhesive tape is pulled off a ...

Shabnam Zaman's research was supported by a doctoral fellowship from the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen, grant no. 11C6521N) and the Biology Department at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Many animals have extraordinary defence mechanisms, from the sea cucumbers that expel their entrails through their anuses to the exploding ants that blow themselves up to protect the colony. Now we ...

Australian tree frogs hang from tilted surfaces using the same physics as adhesive tape, experiments have found. White’s tree frogs (Litoria caerulea) secrete mucus from their toe pads to hold on to ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Inspired by the toe pads of tree frogs and crickets, researchers in India have created a form of sticky coating that is both strong and reusable. When conventional adhesive tape ...