As comic-book publishers plot world domination, the plausibility of some of the industry’s most famous characters has come up for debate. Researchers at the University of Cambridge announced last week ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) -- Stanford University students have created paddles that help humans scale glass walls like a gecko. The "gecko gloves" use the same scientific principles employed by the ...

PALO ALTO — It doesn’t mean experiments taking place at Stanford’s Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Lab are any less science-y just because they sometimes resemble scenes from a “Spider-Man” or ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. – It doesn’t mean experiments taking place at Stanford’s Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Lab are any less science-y just because they sometimes resemble scenes from a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It doesn't mean experiments taking place at Stanford's Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Lab are any less science-y just because ...

You don't have to be a superhero like Spider-Man to climb on walls. Researchers have developed "Gecko Gloves" that can help humans climb on glass walls. The Gecko Gloves have been created by Elliot ...

The US military is developing special gloves that would let soldiers scale vertical walls. Based on a gecko's feet, the gloves are coated with a specialized cloth called 'Geckskin'. Impregnated with a ...

Stanford University students have created paddles that help humans scale walls like a gecko SAN FRANCISCO—Stanford University students have created paddles that help humans scale glass walls like a ...

The feat that Tobey Maguire did when he played the role of Spiderman in the movies is no longer limited to works of fiction. Researchers have come up with a Gecko-inspired human climbing system that ...

Prototype "Spiderman gloves" that will enable window cleaners to scale walls, robots to scurry across ceilings and rock climbers to hang about could be ready within three years. There has been popular ...

PALO ALTO — It doesn’t mean experiments taking place at Stanford’s Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Lab are any less science-y just because they sometimes resemble scenes from a “Spider-Man” or ...

PALO ALTO — It doesn’t mean experiments taking place at Stanford’s Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Lab are any less science-y just because they sometimes resemble scenes from a “Spider-Man” or ...