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'Galloping' bubbles could act as tiny robotic vacuum cleaners

While experimenting with waves, researchers discovered that vibrating a container of liquid would cause bubble to "gallop" across its surface

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Electrodes made from bread could replace metal conductors

Technology

Electrodes made from bread could replace metal conductors

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Technology

Liquid metal particles can self-assemble into electronics

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Technology

Ultra-strong stretchy material could enable shape-shifting aircraft

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How materials that rewind light can test physics' most extreme ideas

Physics

How materials that rewind light can test physics' most extreme ideas

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2WG3YFC Titanium crater formed by a laser, SEM

Chemistry

Some metals actually grow more resilient when hot

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Physics

Physicists are grappling with their own reproducibility crisis

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E8X75D Image concept of magnetic levitating above a high-temperature superconductor, cooled with liquid nitrogen.

Physics

Why we are finally within reach of a room-temperature superconductor

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A sample of cement made from the mineral olivine, which can also help sequester carbon during production.

Environment

Carbon-negative cement can be made with a mineral that helps catch CO2

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Chemistry

Old milk can be used to extract gold and other metals from e-waste

To extract valuable metals from discarded computer motherboards, researchers have developed a gold-absorbing material made from old milk

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Chemistry

Layer of graphene could help protect statues and paintings from damage

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Life

Fire ants form rafts that have weird properties when stretched

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Technology

AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium

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Space

It might rain diamonds on more than 1900 exoplanets across the galaxy

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