How much beauty does it take to launch a ship? Howmuch does a male physicist’s beard grow in a second?And what is the optimal length of a lecture? Thesemay not seem like typical phenomena you need tomeasure, but they’ve nonetheless inspired creativesouls to forge new units of measurement.They are just some of the weird scales […]
Some of the smallest, most useful machines known to science are the biological molecules that keep living things living. The protein myosin drives the contraction and relaxation of muscle. Kinesin drags cellular cargo around the cell. Motor enzymes unwind, rewind, and maintain DNA, and bacteria use a molecular motor to rotate their whip-like flagella up
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