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by Stephen Drew, AIR staff

"Adhesive Force of a Single Gecko Foot-Hair," Kellar Autumn, Yiching A. Liang, S. Tonia Hsieh, Wolfgang Zesch, Wai Pang Chan, Thomas W. Kenny, Ronald Fearing, and Robert J. Full, Nature, vol. 405, no. 6787, June 8, 2000, pp. 681-5. (Thanks to Sally Shelton and numerous other investigators for bringing this to our attention.) The authors are at Lewis and Clark College, UC Berkeley, and Stanford University.

 

 

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