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Author Topic: Have scientists really developed a super glue from mussels and geckoes?  (Read 408 times)

Offline P-Kasso2

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Have scientists really developed a super glue from mussels and geckoes?
« on: 18 January, 2018, 05:55:16 PM »
Geckoes, I can understand because they have famously sticky feet. But mussels?  A friend (our local science buff and wannabe Albert Einstein) swears blind that he has read somewhere that scientists really have developed a new super glue by boiling down mussels and dead geckos.

Is it true? Have they? Are any details available?
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Re: Have scientists really developed a super glue from mussels and geckoes?
« Reply #1 on: 11 November, 2018, 02:34:46 PM »
While it may be a possibility, I would have thought they would have included limpets in any study.
cant, see where geckos would come into it.
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