excretion

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In her 2024 Booker Prize-winning novel Orbital, author Samantha Harvey puts it more lyrically: "A robot has no need for hydration, nutrients, excretion, sleep… It wants and asks for nothing."

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2024

Their framework reveals diverse functions -- such as excretion, venom spraying, prey hunting, spore dispersal, and plant guttation -- highlighting potential applications in soft robotics, additive manufacturing, and drug delivery.

From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2024

Scientists have widely studied how creatures across the animal kingdom eat and drink, but few have delved into the mysteries of fluid excretion.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2024

Recent studies confirm that it plays an important role in regulating blood glucose levels by decreasing the amount of glucose absorbed from the small intestine and increasing excretion from the kidneys.

From Salon • Aug. 10, 2023

This plant, which the purist would doubtless consider a weed in any rosebed, releases an excretion from its roots that kills the soil nematodes.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson