Sticky seems easy, right? You step on gum, it sticks to your shoe, You put glue on paper, it sticks to other paper. It just works! But it turns out stickiness is one of those sneaky, impossible-to-explain science things that involves physics and atoms and stuff!
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[Fact Off]
Exploding ant butts with toxic goo
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A_nAQosWmC5o_jepXNJ0oc3RacjLK5qe1groWg34bL4/edit?usp=sharing
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/animals-ants-borneo-exploding-defense?loggedin=true
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/23/science/exploding-ants.html
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=22661
Sticky rice mortar
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ar9001944
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11431-008-0317-0
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2010/may/revealing-the-ancient-chinese-secret-of-sticky-rice-mortar.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/amylopectin
[Ask the Science Couch]
Frog tongues
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/01/special-spit-is-the-secret-of-uniquely-sticky-frog-tongues-study-reveals
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5332565/
Picture of finger: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5332565/figure/RSIF20160764F1/
[Butt One More Thing]
Sucker-bum squid
https://australian.museum/blog-archive/science/sucker-bum-squid-and-other-intriguing-molluscs
