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A paper in Nature Communications presents a fully edible, biodegradable aquatic robot powered by a safe chemical reaction, enabling potential applications like environmental monitoring and targeted nutrient or drug delivery without harming ecosystems. go.nature.com/3RYBNKX 🧪
May 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Well, there’s a story.
When Nazi Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, the Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of Max von Laue and James Franck in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from stealing them. He placed the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute. After the war, he returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid. The Nobel Society then recast the Nobel Prizes using the original gold.
December 5, 2024 at 9:05 AM