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Published online 31 January 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070129-10
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A demon of a device
Light makes molecular machines perform trick.
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David Leigh at Edinburgh University has managed to make a molecular machine inspired by "Maxwell's demon" — a thought experiment that defies the second law of thermodynamics.
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