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Battery-free cell phone harvests ambient power

Most people wouldn't want to get too close to these deadly creatures. But scorpion venom - which can be fatal to humans - is also used in cancer research and to develop new drugs when broken down to molecular level. And now a Moroccan team has developed a way to extract the secretions quickly and safely.

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