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Published online 21 December 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news011227-5
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Tiny fibres ensure racehorses don't bounce themselves to bits.
"Think when we talk of horses," wrote Shakespeare in the Prologue to Henry V, "that you see them/ Printing their proud hoofs i'the receiving earth". But horses do more than print - they bounce.
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