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by Mirella Bucci

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The Physics of Double-Dutch

The Scientist 2004, 18(12):12

Published

21 June 2004

If you were twirling double-dutch ropes and someone shook the ropes back and forth from the middle, you and your partner would be pulled together. These are the kinds of large-scale behaviors of cellular polymers that David Weitz studies at Harvard University.

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