Insect Biomechanics Workgroup media
Selection of press releases:
- Why Spider-Man can't exist: Geckos are 'size limit' for sticking to walls. Cambridge University Research News, January 2016.
- Why Spider-Man would fall off buildings. The Naked Scientists, January 2016.
- SpiderMan CAN EXIST. The CamFM Science Show, 2016.
- How the stick insect sticks (and unsticks) itself. Cambridge University Research News, October 2015.
- Close-up film shows for the first time how ants use 'combs' and 'brushes' to keep their antennae clean. Cambridge University Research News, July 2015.
- How Ants Keep Clean and Safe. New York Times, July 2015.
- The most efficient trap isn’t always the most deadly trap. Botany One, January 2015.
- How stick insects honed friction to grip without sticking. Cambridge University Research News, February 2014.
- Stabschrecken: Reibung an der Ferse, Adhäsion am Zeh. Spiegel Online, December 2013.
- Setting the trap: Cleaning behaviour of Camponotus schmitzi ants increases long-term capture efficiency of their pitcher plant host Nepenthes bicalcarata, Functional morphology, November 2011
- Ant's head balancing act revealed by video, BBC Earth News, 18.06.2010
- Weightlifting ant is photo winner, BBC News, February 2010
- New repellent foils cling-on bugs, BBC News, October 2009
- Gotcha! Flesh-eating plants set a wily trap (Stephanie Pain, 2008, New Scientist 198, 34-37,layout and images modified)
- Walking on Water: Tree frog's foot uses dual method to stick (Eric Jaffe, 10.06.2006)
- Sticky fingers: How tree frogs keep their grip, The Economist, 01.06.2006
- How to Become Spiderman, Cambridge BlueSci Magazine (Hannah Critchlow), 13.07.2006
- Pitcher plants are all wet. The Scientist (Cathy Holding), 21.09.2004
- Nature's own version of superglue, The Scientist (L. Pray), 2002
- How ants walk upside down, Microscopy Today (Carmichael SW), 2001
- Want to walk on the ceiling? All it takes is a bit of fancy footwork, New Scientist magazine (Pain, S.), 2000