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  1. Materials Science

    Plastic Chips: New materials boost organic electronics

    A new class of electrically conducting organic molecules provides researchers with improved materials with which to fabricate plastic electronic devices.

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  2. Animals

    To Bee He or She: Honeybees use novel sex-setting switch

    After more than a decade of work, an international team has found the main gene that separates the girls from the boys among honeybees.

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  3. Astronomy

    Black Hole Life Preserver: Don’t get sucked in without one

    By temporarily counteracting a black hole's tremendous tidal forces, a proposed black hole life preserver would slightly lengthen the life and shorten the agony of anyone exploring one of these gravitational beasts.