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 How can humans mimic Spiderman to hang from ceilings and climb tall towers? Carbon nanotubes, suggests one professor in Italy. Used to construct a body suit of microscopic Velcro(TM), the nanotubes would call upon the physics of nature's own sticking power: van der Waals forces and capillary adhesion.
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