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Transforming ‘noise’ into mechanical energy. (Credit: Image courtesy of Basque Research)
ScienceDaily (Nov. 2012) — A team of researchers at the Freie Universität Berlin, co-ordinated by José Ignacio Pascual*, have developed a method that enables efficiently using the random movement of a molecule in order to make a macroscopic-scale lever oscillate.