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  1. Materials Science

    Fishy flash

    Fish alter the growth of crystals in their skin, making it supershiny.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  2. Tech

    Smells like DNA

    By reshuffling the chemical letters of the genetic code, scientists have made short strands of DNA that can distinguish several different smells, such as explosives and food preservatives.

    By Ewen Callaway

  3. 19921

    I was intrigued by this article. It states: “The interaction of gravity, matter, and radiation in the early universe set up acoustic oscillations, cosmic sound waves that left their imprints on the distribution of galaxies across the sky.” Spanish poet Antonio Machado [1875–1939] put a similar mode of thinking into a poem dealing with dreams.