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To accomplish this, the researchers turned to metamaterials, engineered materials that contain microscopic repeating structures designed to interact with energy in highly controlled ways.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

That as difficult as New York and Philadelphia are, with their towering housing projects and subway systems and social strata, those structures also protect human beings from the elements.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for the region on Saturday with "unseasonably strong winds" and the potential for damage to temporary structures.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

Firms facing political scrutiny might become more reluctant to experiment with new organizational structures or productivity-enhancing workflows.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

About 300,000 years after their appearance, matter and energy started to coalesce into complex structures, called atoms, which then combined into molecules.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari