The first onion muscle prototypes are very small -- just a few onion cells long. They were created from the thin, translucent layer of epidermal cells that lie just below the dry outer skin of the ...

Most people just put up with the fact that onions makes us cry. But there are simple tricks to stop the tears, a botanist explains.

Artificial muscles could one day revolutionize fields such as robotics, prosthetics and nanotechnology. So far, we've seen examples made from materials like electroactive elastomers, crumpled ...

The onion cells provide some advantages over previous attempts to use living muscle cells to create artificial tissue, Shih says.

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En route to designing a new and improved synthetic muscle, researchers at National Taiwan University realized gold-coated onion cells might work just as well.

It turns out that if you freeze-dry onion cells, coat them in gold, and then hook them up to an electric current, they will contract or elongate depending on how much voltage you use.