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Red-glowing railroad worm may hold key to better medical imaging

Liquid lens aids study of murky water dwellers

Spiders’ silk gives strength to wood-based bioplastics

Morphing metamaterial has tunable shape-changing properties

Aeroengines investigated in circular economy study

PhotoChromeleon offers colour customisation

Platinum-based catalytic system could cut cost of fuel cells

US researchers 3D print viable human tissue

Faraday funding puts battery research on full-charge

Thread robot is designed to remove blood clots in brain

Ultra-fast technique detects explosive materials

Compact water harvester sucks H20 from the air