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    • Readers are curious about dark matter, plastics’ effects on pollination and Percy’s selfies

    Readers are curious about dark matter, plastics’ effects on pollination and Percy’s selfies

    Readers are curious about dark matter, plastics’ effects on pollination and Percy’s selfies

    The electrostatically charged wings of moths and butterflies could draw pollen out of nearby flowers without the insects needing to land on the blooms, Anna Gibbs reported in “Pollination via static electricity” (SN: 8/24/24, p. 13).

    Another blow for dark matter as biggest hunt yet finds nothing

    Another blow for dark matter as biggest hunt yet finds nothing

    LUX-ZEPLIN, a dark matter detector made of 7 tonnes of liquid xenon buried 1.5 kilometres underground, is the most sensitive yet – but after 280 days of searching, it hasn’t found any WIMPs.