POLLUTION PROBLEM While some plastic is recycled, most ends up accumulating in landfills. Plastics that are easier to recycle could help change that.
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In the April 14 SN: Killer heat, mass insect migrations, the latest Saturn updates, rethinking the Nobel Prize, tectonics on Venus, the science of mass shootings, ancient tool trends and more.
Matter & Energy
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ENTANGLED WEB Electromagnetic fields trap a cloud of rubidium atoms above a microchip (illustrated). Quantum linkages were observed between atoms in the left and right halves of the clump.
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Dragon fire is the realm of fantasy. But if a dragon did exist, nature has the tools to give it fire-breathing abilities.
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Matter & Energy
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Physics
Mystery Solved
How ravens caused a LIGO data glitch
Ravens pecking at frosty pipes caused a glitch in gravitational wave data.News in Brief
A key constant’s new measurement hints ‘dark photons’ don't exist
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Chemistry
ScicuriousWant to build a dragon? Science is here for you
Fire-breathing dragons can’t live anywhere outside of a book or TV. But nature provides some guidance as to how they might get their flames. If they existed, anyway.News in Brief
Using laser tweezers, chemists nudged two atoms to bond
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Materials
Teaser
A new plastic film glows to flag food contaminated with dangerous microbes
Plastic patches that glow when they touch some types of bacteria could be built into food packaging to reduce the spread of foodborne illness.News in Brief
Toxic chemicals turn a new material from porous to protective
A new material switches from a comfortable, breathable form to a sealed-up, protective state when exposed to dangerous chemicals. -
Quantum Physics
Science TickerSplit atom clouds get entangled in quantum tests
Scientists create quantum links between clouds consisting of thousands of atoms.News
Spooky quantum entanglement goes big in new experiments
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Condensed Matter
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Give double-layer graphene a twist and it superconducts
When graphene layers are twisted to a “magic angle,” the material superconducts.News
Some meteorites contain superconducting bits
Scientists find materials that conduct electricity without resistance in two meteorites.
