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9000 years ago, cats started hanging out with humans. Humans began farming, rodents were attracted to crops, and wild cats came to catch the rodents. The farmers appreciated the free pest control and rewarded them with food scraps, semi-domesticating the cats. Genetic research shows cats are still mostly wild and tame themselves!
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What kind of bug is that? Is that poison ivy? Now you can snap a picture of it with your phone and it will tell you! An app called i Naturalist is free to download and was started by a group of scientists and biologists. It can identify thousands of species of wildlife.
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A new material is shaping skyscrapers these days. It’s called cross-laminated timber, or C L T, and is produced in the small town of Riddle Oregon. C L T is made by glueing panels of wood together in layers. Plyscrapers are earthquake and fire resistant, cheaper to build, and environmentally friendly!
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Often insect names represent the location where they were discovered, but Turkish scientist Erol Yıldırım has named a new insect Tiphia Bahattini after his father. There have been insects named after Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln. Recently a wasp in New Zealand was named after the Harry Potter character Lucius Malfoy!
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Happy New Year! The year 2018 has begun in Samoa and Kiribati. The International Dateline runs through the Pacific Ocean in an irregular path. While Samoa is to the west of the dateline and among the first to celebrate the new year, American Samoa to the east will have a whole day to wait!
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The Toronto Zoo received a special delivery Christmas Eve. Their white rhino, Zohari, had a baby! A rhinoceros is pregnant for more than 500 days, so they’ve been anticipating this rare white rhino for a long time. The healthy calf weighed 136 pounds at birth and apparently has very hairy ears.
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The first full moon of a new year is called a wolf moon. 2018’s wolf moon will be on New Year’s Day! It will also be a supermoon, which is a full moon that occurs when its orbit is closest to Earth. The technical name is perigee syzygy. Happy almost wolf perigee syzygy!
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Some people joke that they are allergic to exercise, but exercise-induced anaphylaxis, or E I A for short, is a real condition. The allergy can cause digestion problems, wheezing, and hives. But you’ll need an official diagnosis before you can use allergies as an excuse to get out of gym class!
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There’s a new world record in yoga. Kavitha Bharanidaran started her yoga marathon on December 23rd and surpassed the previous record after 103 hours. She decided to keep going until December 30th, so we should find out today how long you’ll have to hold your next yoga pose to break her record!
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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured a fascinating image before its mission ended. One of Saturn’s moons named Enceladus is spewing geysers of water from its southern pole! Scientists also think the moon’s interior might stay warm. Warmth and liquid water open up the possibility that life could exist close to the moon’s core!
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