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Scientists can grow tissue in a lab, and are working on growing organs to use as transplants and save lives. Now they can use 3-D printers to print a scaffold out of sugar! The sugar structure serves as a base for tissue to grow on, and it later dissolves, leaving pathways for blood vessels. Sweet!
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Hannah Spiegelman is an ice cream maker and historian who writes a blog called, “A Sweet History”. She researches historical figures and events to create her ice cream flavors. Charcoal ice cream with pomegranate swirl represents the underworld and Persephone from Greek mythology. Stonehenge inspired a vanilla flavor with honey, oats and hazelnuts. Now I’m hungry!
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Today is National Cellophane Tape Day. Artist Mark Jenkins makes sculptures out of tape, and teaches you how on the website TapeSculpture.org. It’s also National Grape Popsicle Day. 11 year-old Frank Epperson invented them in 1905, when he left a stick in his grape soda and it froze. Popsicles were originally called Eppsicles!
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Pastors Joan Maruskin and Ramona Kinard of Pennsylvania are planning a big dinner party. You have to earn a place at the table, by performing an act of kindness. In hopes of “Celebrating York’s Unity Through 10,000 Acts of Kindness,” they want to fill 1000 tables over a mile and a half long, and break the world record!
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Solar powered robots are starting to help farmers by getting rid of weeds. The current method to kill weeds is to spray the entire crop with herbicidal chemicals. The robots use cameras to identify weeds, then spray herbicide directly onto them. It uses 20 times less chemicals, and keeps it off the food we eat!
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The Kilauea volcano that has been erupting in Hawaii has destroyed over 45 homes and buildings and caused thousands of people to evacuate. But volcanologists are getting the chance of a lifetime to study the volcano, its lava flow patterns, and how to make better predictions about future eruptions. Learning the warning signs could save many lives!
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is better known as NASA. It pays for tons of research, and all that research is free for the public to see. You can search their online database, called PubSpace, for information on Mars, asteroids, Voyager missions, or alien life, or just look up amazing photos. PubSpace is fun to explore!
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Today is National Blueberry Cheesecake Day, Dracula Day, and World Lindy Hop Day. The Lindy Hop is a dance from the 19 twenties. If you don’t know anyone that can teach you, look it up and try it! Dress as everyone’s favorite vampire, Dracula, and eat some cheesecake while you dance!
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Scientists can learn a tremendous amount by taking core samples of ice, like pushing a straw into a layer cake and examining the layers in the tube. In Antarctica, scientists found an area of unbroken ice over 1,000,000 years old! The core sample will provide an amazing record of Earth’s climate, air quality, and even diseases.
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A year ago, Jake the dog disappeared from his home in Arizona. But Adam Herbaugh found the coonhound wandering the streets in Pennsylvania, and located Jake’s owners because he was microchipped. The animal rescue group, A Darrah Bull Bully Rescue, organized a relay to return him. 20 volunteers drove him 100 miles each, until he was home again!
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