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A new species of ant was discovered in the rainforests of Borneo. Colobopsis explodens have a unique way of defending themselves: the ants latch onto enemies and explode their toxic guts onto them! Other workers plug the nest hole up with their heads to keep intruders out. The workers sacrifice themselves to keep the colony safe.
An expedition of scientists from Singapore and Indonesia collected specimens from deep in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of West Java. In only 2 weeks, they’d found 11 new species! From an orange-striped lobster, to a crab that decorates its shell with debris as camouflage, to a foot-long giant sea cockroach, the ocean is still full of surprises!
Don’t dis your vegetables; it’s National Lima Bean Respect Day. It’s also Cheddar Fries and Pineapple Upside Down Cake Day, but I guess you don’t have to respect them, tee hee! After eating cheese fries, cake, and beans, celebrate National Look Alike Day by dressing like someone or something else. Maybe your brother? Maybe a lima bean!
Brine shrimp are tiny sea creatures that you may know as Sea-Monkeys. Scientists have shown that swarms of brine shrimp in the ocean can actually create powerful underwater currents! They migrate vertically to the surface every night to feed, churning the ocean and causing turbulence. Trillions of organisms moving together make a huge impact!
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SpaceX made its eighth rocket launch this year, and successfully landed the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket. It carried NASA’s newest satellite, TESS: the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. TESS will be looking for planets outside our solar system, hunting especially for Earth-like planets. Then the James Webb Space Telescope will take a closer look!
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Costa Coffee is the largest coffee chain in the UK. They sell around half a billion drinks in paper cups every year, but the cups weren’t getting recycled. The solution? Costa will pay the waste management companies $106 per ton to take used paper cups to paper mills for recycling! Awesome!
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Have you ever gotten a pizza delivered that had a little white plastic thing stuck in the middle? It’s called a pizza saver, and it’s meant to keep the cheese from sticking to the lid. But it looks like a tiny table. Now you can get a tiny pizza chair to go with your pizza table at Shapeways.com!
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Today is National High Five Day, a good excuse to give everyone you see a congratulatory hello! It’s also National Hanging Out Day; dry your clothes the old-fashioned way by hanging them on a clothesline. Of course, if it’s raining, you can just hang out and wait by the clothes dryer.
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Brynjar Karl Bigisson, from Iceland, loved learning about the Titanic when he was 10. He decided to build a 26 foot-long Lego Titanic after visiting Legoland in Denmark. Brynjar is on the autism spectrum. The massive project helped him communicate with others, while also earning a record for the world’s largest Lego Titanic, with 56,000 bricks!
Sometimes even when you see it, you can’t believe it. Software exists that uses multiple photos of people to create realistic videos of them saying things they never said. Unfortunately, these convincing videos, called deepfakes, are already beginning to show up. If you see a photo or video that seems unbelievable, research it before you accept it as true!
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