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What fruit flies could teach scientists about brain imaging
Nature Podcast
Research in Nature Sustain Ability
A lobster's under belly is covered by a membrane that is strong but flexible, providing protection while still allowing the animal to manoeuvre. The team behind this based their new material on a network of water loving polymer chains known as a hydrogel. Tearing the resulting film requires more than ten times the energy needed to rip up an uncrystallized sample. And further improvement came when the team stacked layers of polyma, with each layer at an angle to the one underneath it, just like the lobster's soft armor. We'll be talking about the latest results from a malaria vaccine trial, and the scientists digging up bottles of seeds in the dead of night in the world's oldest experiments
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