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The skies of Siberia were recently filled with gold. An airplane was carrying gold, platinum and diamonds when the cargo hatch tore open. Nearly 200 bars of gold fell out before it could make an emergency landing! Luckily, no one was hurt. The 6800 pounds of gold has mostly been recovered. I wonder who has the rest?
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Student Benjy Firester won the $250,000 Regeneron Science Talent Search by developing a computer model that could save farmers time, money, and potatoes. It predicts how weather patterns spread the blight fungus spore. Blight causes billions of dollars in damages to potato and tomato crops each year, but Benjy’s program may help farmers prevent it!
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Graphene is a pretty amazing material. It’s been developed into filters that make dirty water drinkable. Scientists fed it to spiders and their webs became 5 times stronger. It can be used for bulletproof vests that become as hard as diamonds when hit. Its newest use? Hair dye! Chemical free black hair is being researched now.
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It’s Saint Patrick’s Day, time to celebrate Saint Patrick and one very special Paddy! Saint Patrick was British, but became a Christian missionary in Ireland in the 5th century. Saint Patrick’s Day has become a celebration of all things Irish, from shamrocks to leprechauns to the color green! Happy Paddy’s Day!
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Getting towed by a boat while you’re water skiing is so boring. Getting towed by a blimp is the way to do it! Kari McCollum broke the world record for water skier towed by a blimp by skiing 6.9 miles along a California lake. I wonder if she’ll try air skiing next!
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A 6-year old Australian girl was saved by a robot! Freyja had a tumor in her head that the doctors couldn’t remove, but a surgeon was able to use robot technology to do the dangerous operation. She is back home now and ready to get back to swimming and riding horses!
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Do your shoes keep plastic from polluting the ocean? Adidas has sold 1 million Ultraboost shoes made from plastic trash collected on beaches. The Parley for the Ocean organization tries to find uses for plastic waste before it ends up in oceans or landfills, and a pair of shoes uses about 11 bottles worth of plastic.
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Scientists are using x-ray vision to read an ancient book! A religious hymn book from the 11th century was written on parchment that had been used before. The book was originally written in the 6th century, filled with the medical teachings of Galen of Pergamon. The ink had been scraped off, but x-rays can still detect it.
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Every year a parade is cancelled for Saint Urho of Finland’s Day. Saint Urho drank sour whole milk and ate fish soup to gain the power of a loud voice, and used it to cast the frogs out of Finland. And grasshoppers too. Also, Finnish-Americans made him up in the nineteen-fifties! Wear purple and green today!
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If you’ve ever had to go to the hospital, you know sometimes it can seem scary. The Walt Disney Company is spending $100,000,000 to try and make hospitals around the world more comforting. A Team of Heroes is going to research what kids dislike the most about hospitals and try to make things better.
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