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World Service,16 May 2015,40 mins

Plasticity

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Isn鈥檛 it remarkable that everyday objects, especially those made from modern plastics, can bend, squash, stretch, and generally 鈥榮hape-shift鈥 in a number of ways? So how is that possible? Bridget Kendall and guests consider plasticity from several viewpoints: Aurora Robson is an artist who works with plastic garbage, Sujata Kundu a nanochemist who analyses plasticity at the level of atoms and electrons, and Takao Hensch a neuroscientist investigating whether it's possible to recreate youth-like plasticity in an adult brain. (Photo: The Great Indoors: art installation by Aurora Robson)

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