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  "textContent": "Mike Manson has spent 50 years at Texas A&M studying the bacterial flagellar motor — a molecular machine that spins hundreds of times per second, outpacing a race car's spinning crankshaft, to drive bacteria through water. He finally understands it. \"My lifelong quest is now fulfilled,\" he told Quanta Magazine. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Scientists finally cracked how bacteria's spinning motor actually works appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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