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  1. Earth

    Seals’ meals, plastic pieces and all

    Bite-size pieces of plastic chipped from wave-battered consumer products work their way up marine food chains, suggests a study of fur seals in Australia.

    By Ben Harder
  2. Materials Science

    Water Repellency Goes Nano: Carpet of carbon nanotubes cleans itself

    Forests of carbon nanotubes coated with Teflon yield a superhydrophobic material—the ultimate self-cleaning surface.

    By Alexandra Goho
  3. Earth

    Blame the Sea? Ocean may be melting ice shelf from below

    Significant portions of a large Antarctic ice shelf just south of one that suddenly broke apart in February 2002 are rapidly thinning and may suffer a similar, catastrophic demise in less than a century.