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Starfish glue secrets under the microscope Scientists believe they have found the protein that lets starfish feet temporarily glue themselves to a surface. |
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Method Makes Stronger Steel Researchers have found a way to cast relatively large structures from a type of steel whose atomic structure is amorphous, like glass, rather than the usual orderly crystalline structure of metal. |
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December 12, 2013
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Phillip Messersmith: Sticky research Phillip Messersmith is a professor of biomedical engineering at Northwestern University in Illinois, US. His research group is currently looking at biological adhesives. |
