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