Thanks to Tufts researchers, there’s now a solution that shoots, solidifies and even picks up objects. Alas, you can’t use it to swing between buildings.

Marvel’s Spider-Man boasts a huge helping of spider-related gadgets throughout the series, for example, and how it balances web-shooters is via the caveat of web fluid needing to replenish over ...

He said: “I don’t think that the fans thought I was the right person to direct Spider-Man in general and then the organic web shooters — when the fans found out I was going that way ...