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Body surfing bees, unsinkable metal, faster space forecaster, and gutsy mealworms purge plastic! Stanford researchers show that mealworms can safely consume toxic additive-containing plastic https://news.stanford.edu/press/view/31674 Stanford University Detecting solar flares in real time https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=299753 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 https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=299799 California Institute of Technology Spiders and ants inspire metal that won’t sink https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/superhydrophobic-metal-wont-sink-406272/ Related technology by High-Intensity Femtosecond Laser Lab: http://www2.optics.rochester.edu/workgroups/guo/media.html University of Rochester Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics, and Physics in China Credit: National Science Foundation