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Whiskey chemistry propels microscopic machines through liquid
- Jun 3, 2026
Whisky-inspired chemicals could help power a new generation of microscopic machines, according to researchers who have discovered a way to make tiny p...
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Ultrafast laser shrinks to chip scale, potentially lowering costs for diagnostics and atomic clocks
- Jun 3, 2026
Ultrafast lasers emit pulses lasting only a few hundred femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second). These flashes of light power applications from prec...
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Cells have a built-in 'seatbelt' against sudden stress
- Jun 3, 2026
When cells experience sudden physical stress, like stretching or pressure, they can activate a fast, protective mechanism that shields their nuclei fr...
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Common plastics soak up ballistic impacts thanks to a cross-linking molecule
- Jun 3, 2026
With help from a novel cross-linking molecule, MIT chemists have shown they can substantially improve the ballistic impact resistance of common polyme...
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Extraordinary fossils solve a 500-million-year mystery: Bryozoans were there at the dawn of animal life
- Jun 3, 2026
Bryozoans are tiny, filter-feeding colonial invertebrates that thrive in the world's oceans today, yet for decades their origins presented a puzzling...
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Food industries embrace AI sensors to improve efficiencies
- Jun 3, 2026
Food waste is a nagging problem that weighs heavily on global food production, distribution and sales industries—but an emerging generation of AI sens...
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How honeybees really crown their queens
- Jun 3, 2026
For generations, scientists believed a queen honeybee was made almost entirely by diet: feed an ordinary larva enough royal jelly and a ruler emerges....
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Ancient cave lion genomes reveal a distinct lineage
- Jun 3, 2026
A new study on multiple genomes from the extinct cave lion has discovered that it represented a highly distinct evolutionary lineage, which separated...
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Dead Sea archaea sport reinforced swimming tail for hypersalty waters
- Jun 3, 2026
Living in the Dead Sea would be a very unpleasant experience for most creatures. With salt concentration above 30% and temperatures ranging from 10–50...
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Ancient DNA offers hope for California's critically endangered black abalone
- Jun 3, 2026
Black abalone once carpeted the rocky shores of California by the millions. The large, long-lived sea snails sustained Indigenous peoples along the co...
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Solar sails edge closer to reality, but interstellar travel is another story
- Jun 3, 2026
From planetary rovers and asteroid sample return missions to the recent Artemis II flight above the far side of the moon, we are seemingly good at doi...
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Predictive model could help track deadly viruses back to their source
- Jun 3, 2026
A new predictive model developed at Washington State University could help scientists more efficiently identify the reservoirs of emerging zoonotic vi...