cocoon

The simulations suggested that the red source could contain an extremely powerful energy source hidden inside a very dense cocoon of hydrogen.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026

Using modelling simulations, they determined the most likely scenario was that the object is powered by a central black hole surrounded by a cocoon of gas that makes it resemble a star.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

Rolling off the bed in a silicon sleep cocoon, Grace gradually evolves from a wriggling larval stage into a fully upright, walking and talking smarty-pants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026

"They are undergoing tremendous transformation, and we need to approach them as someone who is coming outside of a cocoon and becoming something different."

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026

My work could charitably be described as sloppy, like Petey’s cocoon.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

There, another paleontologist had shown him fossilized wasp cocoons, which are small mud chambers where developing larvae mature into adults.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

"Over time, small improvements in hygiene, feeding practices, and environmental control began to compound into better survival rates and higher-quality cocoons."

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

Or the part where we emerge from our cocoons and ask each other, in mock-amazement, whether this is really who we are.

From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2026

Legend says the island used to be famous for sericulture and farmers would keep cats because they would chase away rats, protecting the silkworm cocoons from the rodents.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024

Some cocoons were allowed to hatch into white silk moths, which would produce eggs and continue the cycle.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

I’m lying on a heated massage bed, cocooned in a soft, weighted blanket, as Kayla Faraji caresses my cheeks with billowy, pink goose feathers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2026

Ms. Rizer begins in a peasant shift of woven jute and ends, after seven layers and 154 pounds of increasing Tolstoyan grandeur, cocooned in a wintry mantle of taupe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025

But car bloat’s most obvious and urgent downside may be the danger it presents to anyone on the street who isn’t cocooned inside a gigantic vehicle.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2024

The chip, cocooned within a vacuum chamber and cooled nearly to absolute zero, is patterned with 198 gold electrodes, arranged like an oval racetrack.

From Science Magazine ● May 30, 2024

The baby had been tucked in a cardboard box, wearing several sets of clothing and cocooned in blankets against the January cold.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

"Covid was very tough. I ended up cocooning because I was afraid of getting sick, afraid of nearly dying I suppose," he explained.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

In the cocooning fluidity of an ocean-borne day, rendered with thick-brushed painterliness and splashes of sound, we travel across flashes of community, injustice, achievement, love and despair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

Something that understood the rhythm of a slow morning, thick socks, a fogged-up kitchen, the whole mood of wintertime cocooning.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025

The idea that cocooning may be harmful is completely new information to most patients Gormally meets.

From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2024

Now I know why I’ve been subconsciously cocooning myself in that vacuum of numbness.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali