What Are the Benefits and Uses of Intelligent Oil?
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Amazing video, but of course they learned the trick from the maze-solving amoeba:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v407/n6803/abs/407470a0.html"
it earned the researchers an Ig Nobel prize.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v407/n6803/abs/407470a0.html"
it earned the researchers an Ig Nobel prize.
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Amazing what simple acid/base chemistry can do. For those interested in reading the associated paper with these videos explaining the phenomena, see:
Lagzi et al. 2010. Maze Solving by Chemotactic Droplets. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132: 1198-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja9076793
Lagzi et al. 2010. Maze Solving by Chemotactic Droplets. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132: 1198-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja9076793
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Ygggdrasil said:
Oh, so it's in water. I wondered how it could know where it is just being in air.