Recent Examples on the WebAutonomous motion can demonstrate numerous significant characteristics such as transduction of chemical potential into work without heat, chemosensitive motion, chemotactic and phototactic motions, and pulse-like motion with periodicities responding to the chemical environment.—Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 18 Nov. 2010
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