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20 Things You Didn't Know About ... Engines
« on: March 03, 2018, 04:07:48 pm »
 FROM THE MARCH 2018 ISSUE
20 Things You Didn't Know About ... Engines
What do catapults, black holes and panda poop have in common?
By Gemma Tarlach|Tuesday, February 13, 2018
 

1. Everybody’s doing the locomotion . . . really. We are all engines, which by their most basic definition are machines that convert energy into motion.

2. And while you could think of animals as being engines, plants have them: Photosynthesis pathways are often described as plant engines, and biologists are particularly interested in the C4 plant engine, which was discovered in the 1960s.

http://discovermagazine.com/2018/mar/20-things-you-didnt-know-about--engines