The ability to stick to smooth objects and detach when needed is a perpetual game of geometry for tree frogs, which repeatedly adjust the angle of their toes with respect to the surface. White’s tree ...

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A BBC clip shows Sir David Attenborough’s joyous facial expression as he pokes into the seed pods of an egg ballium plant, a cucumber’s relative. With a woody stem, he nudged into the cucumber, and ...