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World Service,1 min

Generating power like electric eels

Science In Action

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Scientists have mimicked the cells that electric eels use to shock their prey. Professor Michael Mayer, at Adolphe Merkle Institute in Switzerland, tells Roland Pease about the scary resemblance of this artificial electric organ to gummy bears and how much voltage it is able to produce. (Image: Electric eel, Credit: Clay Harrison.)

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