Spiderman is a beloved superhero known for his ability to stick to walls and ceilings. This seemingly impossible feat has fascinated audiences for decades and has become one of Spiderman's most ...

Those tiny microscopic hairs are called setae, each of which splits off into hundreds of even smaller bristles called spatulae. It has long been known that at microscopic size scales, the so ...

In case of hairy adhesive pads this requires flexibility of the contact-forming bristles, called adhesive tarsal setae. However, too flexible setae would have a low mechanical stability resulting ...

Kellar Autumn of Lewis & Clark College studies gecko adhesion and provides the following explanation: Geckos have arrays of millions of microscopic hairs, or setae, on the bottoms of their feet.

“What makes gecko feet stick are tiny hairlike structures on their toe pads called setae,” Robert Espinoza, a biologist at California State University, Northridge, says via email. These setae ...

Now, scientists have zoomed in for an even closer look at those structures, called setae, and found that they are coated in an ultra-thin film of water-repelling lipid molecules only one nanometer ...

They're black with red spiracles and inter-segmental areas and are covered with shiny black, bristly setae, which are stiff structures resembling hairs or bristles. Tiger moth larvae lack ...

Greaney and a team of researchers created a mathematical model that shows how the setae angle and the forces that act on a gecko as it climbs interact to create a delicate but powerful sticking ...

Each of these hairs, known as setae, finishes in hundreds of even finer spatula-shaped split-ends. These ends make intimate contact with the microscopic bumps and troughs of a given surface ...