I wandered into a session today and was confronted by a video of an orangutan chomping on a nut.
This wasn’t what i expected at a materials science conference. How foolish of me, this meeting has it all – I should have realised that. Analysis into the toughness of nuts and why orangutans can’t crack certain types (i missed the start of the talk so actually what kind of nut it was will remain a mystery), someone trying to recreate an elephant’s trunk using robotics, as well as some hard core chemistry (which pleased me – lots of pictures of molecules) for photovoltaic solar cells.
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