It seems like the cakes designed on competitive cooking shows get larger and more intricate every year. From re-creating full play stages to life-size sculptures, bakers often need to have serious ...

Engineers at Tufts University have developed new type of glue inspired by the incredible sticking power of some common underwater crustaceans and molluscs. Starting with the fibrous silk protein ...

If you have ever tried to chip a mussel off a seawall or a barnacle off the bottom of a boat, you will understand that we could learn a great deal from nature about how to make powerful adhesives.

Scanning electron micrograph showing an injured lung repaired with MeTro gel, a strong and stretchy non-toxic surgical glue.