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Smoots and garns

How much beauty does it take to launch a ship? Howmuch does a male physicist’s beard grow in a second?And…

November 16, 2018February 23, 2019
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What’s the best way to build a molecular machine?

Some of the smallest, most useful machines known to science are the biological molecules that keep living things living. The…

October 30, 2018October 31, 2018

RECENT WORK

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