Comic book geeks and science nerds the world over can breathe easy now. A team of Italian researchers has come one step closer to making every spider-fan's wet dream a sticky reality with carbon nanotube arrays designed to mimic the gripping power of a gecko. Next step: brightly colored spandex costumes that don't make the wearer look like a schlub or a fruitcake.
Read it here on NewScientist.com
It looks like our furtive glances to the sky in hope that a hero will come and save us from a random purse-snatcher (it's a european carry-all!) or come and turn back time are all for naught.
An archeological dig in Serbia found a mineral that has the exact make-up as Kryptonite.
"apparently one Chris Stanley, a mineralogist at London's Natural History Museum discovered the correspondence by Googling "sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide," which as you can easily verify brings up Wikipedia's entry on kryptonite."
