Other tricks designed to turn you into a victim of this tidal wave of cyber trickery include lookalike YouTube, CNN, Facebook, or Twitter videos, images, or notifications that contain hidden programs or embedded material.

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The conclusion: The blob was an object embedded in the material around the star, suggesting a nascent planet.

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When the agent made contact with a catalyst embedded in the material, a chemical reaction bonded the two faces of the crack together.

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The conclusion: The tiny bright blob was an object still embedded in the disk of material around the parent star, suggesting a planet in the earliest stages of coming into being.

WSJ: Possible New Planet Spotted Under Formation

This vast majority of genetic material known as functional noncoding DNA, mostly embedded within and around the genes, was thought to play an important but murky role in regulating how the coding genes go about their business.

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The material uses what the researchers are calling 'shape-memory' polymers and have a fiber optic network embedded within them which acts as the damage sensor as well as the heat delivery system.

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