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  1. Physics

    Much of the sun’s light is green. Why does it look yellow?

    Sunlight's peak intensity is at a green wavelength. Here’s why it doesn’t appear that way to us.

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  2. Materials Science

    A beautiful blue butterfly wing offers a new way to study cancer

    Once a morpho butterfly wing is placed atop a thin slice of tissue, shining polarized light through it can help reveal how likely breast cancer is to spread.

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  3. Materials Science

    This engineer uses light to get hearts pumping

     Pengju Li designed a new type of pacemaker to help doctors during open-heart surgery.

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  4. Physics

    Physics finally explains the sound of clapping

    The “Helmholtz resonator” concept is responsible for the sound produced by hand-clapping.

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  5. Microbes

    Living lenses? Glass-coated microbes might take better photos

    Bacteria with a gene from sea sponges can coat themselves in glass. Working as tiny, bendable lenses, they could lead to thinner cameras or sensors.

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  6. Space

    The universe: How will it end?

    The Big Bang likely brought our universe into existence. What will mark its grand finale? Scientists blend imagination and data to make predictions.

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  7. Physics

    This weird ice may exist on alien planets

    Scientists used high pressure and heat to create plastic ice, which has qualities of both ordinary ice and liquid water.

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  8. Physics

    Scientists Say: Lift

    An airplane wing’s unique shape creates air pressure differences that result in this gravity-defying force.

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  9. Tech

    Experiment: Make the fastest rubber band paddleboat

    With a rubber band and some cardboard, you can build your own paddleboat to speed across the surface of a pool.

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