Why do some of the world’s top athletes look as though they’ve been on the receiving end of a brutal paintball firing squad? US swimmer Michael Phelps’s skin is strewn with livid polka dots, and his ...

Four years ago, we heard how scientists had gained a new understanding of the Northern clingfish's ability to … well, to cling to things. Utilizing that knowledge, they've now developed a suction cup ...

While there already are powered suction-cup devices that allow people or robots to climb walls, they only work on smooth surfaces. Chinese scientists, however, have now developed a system that sticks ...

A mini-suction cup allows for the painless administration of medications that previously could only be injected. It stretches the mucosal lining of the cheek and, in combination with a ...

Lanice spongicola lives on a glass sponge, a deep-sea sponge with a skeleton made of silica, that rises from hard rock. The worm builds a thin mucus tube on the lower part of the sponge and presses ...