study co-author and an associate professor at Virginia Tech, said. To understand how the adhesive works, it’s important to first know how octopus tentacles function. Octopus tentacles are lined ...

Scientists in Michael Bartlett’s Soft Materials and Structures Lab at Virginia ... very own tentacles. Their results were published in the journal Science Advances. “The octopus has eight ...

Bartlett and researchers from Virginia Tech ... After all, it is not like the octopus only uses its tentacles for work. "With such a highly intelligent creature, it's likely to get bored ...

This helps the cephalopods create a strong adhesive bond with their tentacles ... of the study from Virginia Tech. “What is just as interesting, though, is that the octopus controls over 2,000 ...

In a new study, researchers invented a glove that mimics octopus suckers to improve our grip ... objects much easier and more natural,” says co-author Michael Bartlett of Virginia Tech in a press ...

A new adhesive technology pays homage to one of nature’s strongest sources of suction: an octopus tentacle ... Researchers at Virginia Tech set out to re-create this behavior in the lab by ...