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Tiny robots swim the front crawl through your veins

24 July 2017

Swarms of gold nanobots with rotating arms powered by magnetic fields could swim through the human body and deliver medicine directly where it’s needed

Plastics made fireproof thanks to mother-of-pearl mimic

19 July 2017

A method for quickly coating objects in a thin, environmentally safe mother-of-pearl-like film could protect food or electronics from the elements

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Tiny robots swim the front crawl through your veins

Plastics made fireproof thanks to mother-of-pearl mimic

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