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You’ll Never Be Spider-Man, Science Says

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Science tells us a lot of things, in many cases things we didn’t even know we needed to know. Without science, we’d be ignorant to the brain functions of dead salmon, the complex physical properties of the human ponytail and the most and least painful areas of the human body to be stung by a bee. 

Now, a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has officially determined that, no, you cannot be Spider-Man.

A team of researchers from four universities concluded that as animals grow, they require more and more adhesive padding on their bodies to climb surfaces the way an insect or a frog does, and that for a human to successfully ascend a smooth vertical would require 40% of the person’s surface area covered in adhesive material like that which pads gecko feet.

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Stick Insect Could Help Produce Better Antibiotics

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Researchers from the John Innes Centre, and the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England are studying giant lime green stick insects to see what makes them resistant to certain kinds of infection and toxins.

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