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Fire Ants Floating in Flood Water

Life

Fire ants form rafts that have weird properties when stretched

Fire ants link together to form rafts when their nests are flooded, and unlike most materials the rafts don’t become thinner when they are stretched

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Technology

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

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Falling diamonds on black background

Space

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

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Chemistry

Notoriously complex material called 'plumber's nightmare' created

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This carbon nitride is nearly as hard as diamond

Chemistry

Material made of carbon and nitrogen is nearly as hard as diamond

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Health

Stretchy electrodes shrink when wet to fit snugly around organs

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Apartment air conditioners in a building in Singapore

Technology

Cooling system could replace air con and drastically cut energy use

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Attempts to recreate red matter

Physics

Superconductor hopes dashed after journal retracts ‘red matter’ study

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Technology

Hollow nanoparticles linked by DNA make unusually strong materials

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Plastic scrap in landfill

Technology

Waste plastic can be recycled into hydrogen fuel and graphene

Using waste plastic to produce a combination of hydrogen and graphene could make it profitable and greener to generate hydrogen as a fuel

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Physics

Squeezing loofah sponges creates enough electricity to power LEDs

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Technology

Silkworms genetically engineered to produce pure spider silk

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Technology

Toughest known structure discovered by autonomous robot lab

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Technology

Recycled coffee grounds can be used to make stronger concrete

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