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Soft matter and liquids

Vital forces

29 Nov 2012

Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
Peter M Hoffmann
2012 Basic Books £18.99/$27.99hb 288pp

Micro machines
In many people’s minds, the primary focus of physics is on the very large (black holes, the di

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