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To help mitigate climate change, companies are using bioreactors to grow algae and other microorganisms that are hundreds of ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina have created microscopic soft robots shaped like flowers that can change shape and behavior in response to their surroundings, just like living ...

Graham Johnson, a computational biologist and scientific illustrator at the Allen Institute for Cell Science, recalls ...

The pulp and paper industry consumes large amounts of energy. But despite stricter EU requirements for efficiency ...

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