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  1. Tech

    Robots are gaining new capabilities thanks to plants and fungi

    Biohybrid robots made with plant and fungal tissue are more sensitive to their surroundings.

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  2. Archaeology

    Mount Vesuvius turned this ancient brain into glass. Here’s how

    Transforming the brain tissue to glass would have required an extremely hot and fast-moving ash cloud, lab experiments suggest.

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  3. Physics

    Squishy materials reveal new physics of static electricity 

    The charge transferred when identical objects touch depends on their history, scientists find.

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  4. Physics

    A weird ice that may form on alien planets has finally been observed

    High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

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  5. Physics

    A cosmic neutrino of unknown origins smashes energy records

    A deep-sea detector glimpsed a particle with 220 million billion electron volts of energy — around 20 times as energetic as any neutrino seen before.

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  6. Animals

    How mantis shrimp deliver punishing blows without hurting themselves

    A mantis shrimp's punch creates high-energy waves. Its exoskeleton is designed to absorb that energy, preventing cracking and tissue damage.

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  7. Materials Science

    The best way to cook an egg — in 32 minutes

    It’s hard to cook both the white and the yolk of the egg to the right temperature. Scientists have found a new method, called periodic cooking.

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  8. Quantum Physics

    Quantum mechanics was born 100 years ago. Physicists are celebrating

    Quantum physics underlies technologies from the laser to the smartphone. The International Year of Quantum marks a century of scientific developments.

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  9. Particle Physics

    A tiny neutrino detector scored big at a nuclear reactor

    A compact method of detecting neutrinos provides new tests of physics theories and could lead to new reactor-monitoring methods.

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