The gel exhibits strong shear thinning, meaning its viscosity decreases 100 times as the shear rate increases, which is the secret sauce to making rocket and satellite fuel easier to store and deliver to engines.
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Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Nov. 2026
According to the team, Paul exhibits the patience and nonchalance of The Dude, an extremely chill character from the 1998 film The Big Lebowski.
The deal closed in April 2026; Starbucks no longer discloses China numbers in its earnings.
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Jay Ganglani,
Fortune,
23 Oct. 2026
The headman is compromised, an NGO in the area is pursuing its own politics, and the man running the mine discloses that Nengsal was never on the books, leaving workers like him invisible on their own land.
That makes the meteorite a new window into that planet, one that reveals history scientists haven't been able to see in the scarce samples on Earth.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 Nov. 2026
Future Caucus data reveals that a majority of Gen Z candidates who ran for Congress this year ran as Democrats, while under a third filed as Republicans.
As a most un-saintlike Mother Teresa, Dueñas gives voice to a seething, inconsolable fury, an assertion of pure, ferocious will, that exposes the preciousness of Ambrossi and Calvo’s poetic and structural conceits.
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Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2026
The Caller’s loss of donors exposes how much of a gamble this has been.
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