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  • The black patch is polypyrrole, grown inside the wing with UV light
    Robotics
    Robot moth grows new sensor using its own blood
    Robots usually leave the factory with every sensor they'll ever have bolted on. But what if they could grow new ones when needed? Scientists have now built a moth-shaped robot that uses chemicals in its artificial blood to do just that.
  • The University of Tartu's Prof. Toomas Tenno, with test pieces of the material
    3D Printing
    Inexpensive houses could be 3D-printed from peat
    ​Some of the earliest houses in Northern Europe were made out of slabs of peat, as it was a cheap and abundant building material. Now, Estonian scientists are revisiting the idea of peat houses, only this time they're looking at 3D-printing the things.