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Wouldn’t it be nice to eat a popsicle on a hot day without it melting all over your hand? Japanese scientists have developed ice cream that won’t melt even if it catches on fire! They found that by adding polyphenol, a chemical extracted from strawberries, they could make ice cream hold its shape.
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People don’t write letters as often as they used to, but the town of Susami Japan is inspiring people to send oceans of mail. They installed the world’s first underwater mailbox! Hiroaki Yamatani dives 30 feet down to collect each day’s mail. Nearly 38,000 letters have been mailed from under the sea!
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The MinebeaMitsumi company in Japan has created the world’s smallest fidget spinner. At only 5 mm long, it’s perfect for your hamster! They made it using their world’s smallest ball bearings. Imagine dropping that spinner and looking for the pieces! They also created the longest spinning fidget spinner. One spin lasted over 24 minutes!
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Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a new type of self-healing glass. The glass is a polymer that can fuse itself together when pressure is applied at room temperature. Imagine how great it will be when your phone screen cracks and you can just press it back together!
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Japanese scientists have discovered a new species of worm that lives on the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean. The Xenoturbella japonica is an orange sack-like creature with no internal organs. The two inch-long worm also has no butt! It eats and expels waste from the same opening. He’s a real potty-mouth!
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The biggest celebrity at the zoo in Tokyo Japan is a baby panda. Xiang Xiang made his first public appearance to thousands of lucky people. The zoo held a lottery to limit visitors and 250,000 people applied! The panda cub rolled around, ate bamboo, and looked adorable!
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Will you be traveling over the holidays? So are the astronauts who blasted off yesterday! The Soyuz capsule launched from Kazakhstan carrying Anton Shkaplerov from Russia, Norishige Kanai from Japan and Scott Tingle from the United States. They are headed for the International Space Station orbiting 240 miles above Earth.
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