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The venerable "journal club" concept is thriving in the online environment
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Japanese art of paper cutting used to make micron-sized electronic and mechanical devices
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Collective motion of bacterial swimming could power tiny motors
Read article: Reptile skin inspires super-slippery steel surfaces
Copying patterns found on snakes and lizards could reduce friction in tiny machines
Read article: Liquid droplets create logic circuits
Magnetic fluids could drive large-scale parallel chemical analysis
Read article: Scientists reveal how a sea sponge gets its remarkable strength
Fibres made of concentric cylinders help creature cling to the sea floor
Read article: A quantum sense of smell
Why does an orange smell like an orange? The answer may have a quantum connection
Simple mixtures of water and food colouring have a rich variety of behaviours
Read article: Fractal patterns seen on emerging cancerous cells
Study could point to new ways of preventing some cancers
