Working From the Memory of the Environment

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Can we take advantage of something that we have no way of seeing? A research team has shown in the laboratory that it does. In a complex liquid, the environment of a microscopic particle "remembers" what has happened to it, and that hidden memory, although it cannot be observed directly, allows us to extract work, that is, useful energy [...] The article Work from the memory of the environment has been written in Notebook of Scientific Culture.