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New water-resistant hydrogels, designed with the help of machine learning, are more adhesive than any comparable materials found in nature. The hydrogels were developed with the aid of an algorithm trained on the adhesives produced by natural organisms, such as geckos and mussels. The researchers that created them suggest that the new substances could have applications in areas such as …

What impressed the scientists the most, though, was the versatility of those disks. Reef-associated species of remora like Phtheirichthys lineatus are generalists and stick to various hosts, including other fish, sharks, or turtles. Other species living in the open sea are more specialized and attach to cetaceans, swordfish, or marlins. While most remoras attach to the external tissue of their …