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Biophysics and bioengineering

Biophysics and bioengineering

Replicating how plants move

14 Jul 2021
Taken from the July 2021 issue of Physics World.

Once studied by Charles Darwin, the Venus flytrap is perhaps the most famous plant that moves at high speed. But as Daniel Rayneau-Kirkhope explains, researchers are still unearthing new scientific insights into plant motion, which could lead to novel, bio-inspired robotic structures

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“In the absence of any other proof,” Isaac Newton is once said to have proclaimed, “the thumb

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After spending more than a decade carrying out research in the UK and Finland into structural physics and bio-inspired designs, Daniel Rayneau-Kirkhope is now a science writer based in Italy
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