30 May 2014

The man who levitated frogs: How one scientist’s strange experiment led to a Nobel Prize

www.news.nationalpost.com, 22 May 2014 – Out of the two dozen or so attempted Friday Night Experiments, three have been hits, a success rate of 12.5 percent. The flying frog was the first. The second was the creation of “gecko tape,” an adhesive that mimics the clinging ability of the gecko’s hairy feet. The third FNE hit was the Nobel Prize–winning isolation of graphene. Read more