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Naturally occurring porous ceramic structure inside sea urchin spines can generate measurable electrical voltage in response to water contact.

Nature does it again! The natural world has a knack for giving us the blueprints for some useful technologies, and the humble sea urchin is the latest contributor. Scientists have designed a new class ...

Researchers led by Chen et al. have discovered that the spines of the sea urchin Diadema setosum generate measurable ...