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materials science

Bent bird feathers repair themselves when soaked in water

Physics

Bent bird feathers repair themselves when soaked in water

Elastic fibres inside a feather can spring back to their original shape when soaked in water, helping it straighten even after being bent nearly in half

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Grape skins and stems can be turned into a greener plastic

Physics

Grape skins and stems can be turned into a greener plastic

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Halo Jones: return of the 50th-century galactic adventurer

Space

Halo Jones: return of the 50th-century galactic adventurer

Culture

Bohr

Physics

What Is Real? A tale of how big egos hijacked quantum physics

Culture

roaming free

Physics

Upend atom! We've found a whole new way of doing chemistry

Features

Alan Turing inspired a faster way to make seawater drinkable

Physics

Alan Turing inspired a faster way to make seawater drinkable

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Laser-sticker contacts could let you shoot beams from your eyes

Physics

Laser-sticker contacts could let you shoot beams from your eyes

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Toughest ever heat shields made of springy sponge-like stuff

Space

Toughest ever heat shields made of springy sponge-like stuff

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Dragonfly wing

Physics

Superlight aerogel made by mimicking a baby dragonfly’s wings

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Super-tough diamonds have been made bendy and springy

Physics

Super-tough diamonds have been made bendy and springy

Diamonds may be tough, but they can also be surprisingly flexible. A team of researchers grew diamond nanoneedles that bent and then sprang back upright

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Physics

Poking tiny dents into solar panels makes them work better

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Physics

Carlo Rovelli: physics' literary superstar makes us rethink time

Culture

Physics

Why now doesn’t exist, and other strange facts about time

Features

Physics

Quantum time: Is this where the flow of existence comes from?

Features

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