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Spider-Man Super Powers for the Rest of Us

Some good news if you've always been jealous of Peter Parker's ability to scale walls in a leotard. Nicola Pugno of Italy's Polytechnic University of Turin is spending precious research dollars to help man stick to walls -- though, sans-leotard. The secret is carbon nanotubes, structures of carbon that are rolled into cylinders just one nanometer thick. These structures are so impossibly small, ...