Every last speck of black paint has to be cleaned from the tubes of the paint-spraying robots with expensive solvents.

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Charlotte Faurie and Michel Raymond at the University of Montpellier, France, deduced the prehistoric cave painters' handedness by spraying paint against cave walls to see which hand they pressed against the wall, and therefore did not use for drawing.

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