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 ...

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 ...

An earthworm is a terrestrial annelid invertebrate that belongs to the Lumbricidae family. Earthworms derive their name from where they live (earth). They are adaptable to any biome with moist soil or ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Geckos have leaflike arrays on their feet, each covered in micro- and nanoscale hairs called setae. These hairs can generate adhesive forces that allow geckos to hang upside down on smooth surfaces.

The crayfish had bearded antennae covered in bristly setae that enhance their sensory capabilities, and it looked a lot like Barbicambarus cornutus, a species that lives about 130 miles away from ...