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4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About -- Episode 38
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn't Hear AboutBody surfing bees, unsinkable metal, faster space forecaster, and gutsy mealworms purge plastic!
Stanford researchers show that mealworms can safely consume toxic additive-containing plastic
Stanford University
Detecting solar flares in real time
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
University of Colorado Boulder
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at CU Boulder
Bees “surf” atop water
California Institute of Technology
Spiders and ants inspire metal that won’t sink
Related technology by High-Intensity Femtosecond Laser Lab:
University of Rochester
Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics, and Physics in China
Credit: National Science Foundation
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