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Soldiers Scale Walls With Vacuum

Grappling hooks are so 1985. Check out this thing. Looking a LOT like some kind of steampunk version of Spiderman’s climbing apparatus circa 1944, the vacuum-powered gear in this video was developed by students at Utah State University for

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Venom Eats Leaves: We Are Caterpillar

Legend has it that this caterpillar used to be a journalist, a good one too. If it weren’t for that one story about the Sin Eater he could have been Bob Woodward. But no, he was fed some bad information and revealed to be a fraud by Spider-

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Scientists Recreate Spider Silk (50 Years After Teenager in Queens)

Listen kids. If you are reading this and you only know of Peter Parker and Spider-man because of the Sam Raimi films, let me break something to you. Peter Parker didn’t start shooting webs out of his wrists as part of an overnight biologica

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Spider-man Strength Webbing Found In Wild

According to researchers, this stuff is the strong enough to swing-patrol the streets of New York City and durable enough to slam the Green Goblin into a midtown high rise, glider and all. [Nat Geo]

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Experimental Limb Regeneration That WILL Turn You Into A Lizard

We told you last week about a possible new therapy hoping to regrow body parts. Unlike the ill-fated research of Dr. Curt Connors, it does not use the DNA of an animal that naturally regrows limbs so the likelihood of the recipient turning

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