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Self-cleaning clothes
A few hours of sunshine cleans specially treated cotton fabrics
Posted in Chemistry
Tagged catalyst, chemical reaction, clothing, fabric, feature, fiber, kinetics, photochemical, UV light
Caterpillars tattletale to police
Clothes moth larvae snack on hair from corpses, providing police with genetic clues
Posted in Animals
Tagged DNA, fiber, forensic science, hair
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