Thinking about stitches can be unsettling but there's a better way to heal: using skin glue where surgeons decide how to ...

A tough adhesive applied onto a pig heart to show superior adhesion and stretchability performance. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 28, issue of Science, published by AAAS.

Spiders use a kind of sticky glue to catch their prey on rainy days ... Sutures - stitches that hold a wound or cut together - don't always work well and can cause infections and pain.

Silicone and cyanoacrylate glues, like Krazy Glue and Gorilla Glue, react with water vapor in the air and harden through a chemical reaction. Because water helps them harden, cyanoacrylates can be ...