For the first time ever, she measured the force of a gecko hair

And then she did something magical:for the first time ever,she measured the force of a single gecko hair that allowed her to discover
a completely new way to stick to something,something no human has ever known before.They have hairy little toes,huge numbers of hairs,
and each hair has the worst case of split ends possible,100 to 1,000 nano-tips that an animal has on one hair,and 2 billion total,and they don't stick by glue,or by suction, or by velcro.