There are a bevy of cardinal sins for superheroes, but chief among them is leaving the house without easy access to your costume.
According to Professor Nicola Pugno, physicist at Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, “ There are many interesting applications for our theory, from space exploration and defense, to designing gloves and shoes for window cleaners of big skyscrapers.' Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, anyone? These same engineers have found a select amount of adhesive substances that would essentially function as “ microscopic Velcro ” and let humans become a real-life Spider-Man. Through studying the gravity-defying qualities of geckoes and spiders, scientists identified that “Van der Waals forces” (the synergy of molecules in close proximity) are the energy source that lets the eight-legged creatures hang from the ceiling. According to The Institute of Physics, a team of engineers has actually built the formula for a modern-day Spider-Man to use. The tale may be the stuff of superheroes, but the science is somewhat grounded in reality. As the old story goes, Peter Parker gets bitten by a spider, absorbs its powers, and becomes a human-arachnid hybrid.
