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Battling pollution by navigating particle traffic
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Battling pollution by navigating particle traffic

The movement of particles in solution through the holes and spaces in a material as the liquid flows through is critical to processes such as underground water...

4 min read3,767 views
Cheetah-inspired soft robots: how to make robots run fast?
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Cheetah-inspired soft robots: how to make robots run fast?

Soft-bodied robots often crawl as slow as a caterpillar. How can we make soft robots run faster, like a cheetah? One solution is to add a flexible spine.

4 min read4,400 views
The travel time of light inside the hydrogen molecule
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The travel time of light inside the hydrogen molecule

A particle of light takes 247 zeptoseconds to cover the bond length of the hydrogen molecule. With a microscopic double-slit experiment, we have resolved this...

3 min read5,608 views
Recovering data you have never seen
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Recovering data you have never seen

Imagine you spilled coffee over the spreadsheets containing your research data, and a large part of the data is completely unreadable. Before you throw away...

5 min read4,117 views
Plastic is fantastic, but recycling is no magic
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Plastic is fantastic, but recycling is no magic

When it comes to recycling, not all plastics are equal. While the world still struggles to manage recycling streams for simple plastics like PET, manufacturers...

4 min read4,346 views
The 1000-year-old mystery of a medieval blue solved!
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The 1000-year-old mystery of a medieval blue solved!

To understand why color is fading in precious artworks, the reproduction of ancient colors is a vital ingredient. This know-how was lost at the turn of the...

3 min read5,132 views
Saving the cadmium yellow pigments in The Scream
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Saving the cadmium yellow pigments in The Scream

In situ non-invasive spectroscopic methods combined with synchrotron radiation X-ray techniques allowed us to unveil that moisture, but not light, is the main...

4 min read5,316 views
Same or different? The tale of a tangled molecule
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Same or different? The tale of a tangled molecule

Most great discoveries are a result of happenstance. This is a story about a remarkably complex small molecule that can adopt either of two molecular shapes...

4 min read4,089 views
Naturally occurring enzyme does the unexpected
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Naturally occurring enzyme does the unexpected

Macrocycles are complex molecules with unique three-dimensional shapes, that are difficult to synthesize in the lab. We show that a commercially available...

3 min read3,498 views
Study gets the buzz on stingless bee honey
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Study gets the buzz on stingless bee honey

Stingless bee honey contains high levels of a rare special sugar called trehalulose, not normally found in in any other food. For the first time, this low...

4 min read9,628 views