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Physics

Here’s how to bend spaghetti to your will

Researchers have discovered how to snap spaghetti sticks without sending bits of pasta flying.

Animals

Naked mole-rats eat the poop of their queen for parenting cues

Hormones in the naked mole-rat queen’s poop turn subordinate nest-mates into surrogate parents.

Chemistry

See the ‘periodic table’ of molecular knots

A new table of knots points the way to twisting molecules in increasingly complex pretzels.

Astronomy

Strange gamma rays from the sun may help decipher its magnetic fields

The sun spits out more and weirder gamma rays than anyone expected, which could give a new view of the sun’s magnetic fields.