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A DNA turbine powered by a transmembrane potential across a nanopore - They sure have a way of making their work sound boring with these technical titles and the scientific paper style of writing, but when you take the time to read through, the stuff they are doing is pretty amazing. It's like a motorboat propellar for tiny boats. How tiny? 24 nanometers. For comparison, the cutting edge of transistors on microchips is 3 nanometers. And it's made from DNA, so they could potentially lead to nanoscale robots that fix your body from the inside. Material science is cool. www.nature.com #

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