Today, you’ll learn about a super exciting space program, blasting off in a few months, that will take us back to the moon for the first time in 50 years, how the simple snap of your fingers actually involves some cool physics and the chemistry behind the skunky stank of cannabis.

We’re going back to the moon, for the first time in 50 years! 

NASA

• Artemis-I: https://www.nasa.gov/artemisprogram
• Artemis: https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/
• Artemis Program: https://www.nasa.gov/artemisprogram
• Around the Moon with NASA’s First Launch of SLS with Orion: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/around-the-moon-with-nasa-s-first-launch-of-sls-with-orion
• NASA Readies Rocket for Artemis I Wet Dress Rehearsal: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-readies-rocket-for-artemis-i-wet-dress-rehearsal
• The Artemis Plan: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/artemis_plan-20200921.pdf
• Rocket Weight and Thrust: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/sls_reference_guide_2022_web.pdf

NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket reaches the launch pad by Brendan Byrne

• https://www.npr.org/2022/03/18/1087417075/nasas-artemis-1-moon-rocket-reaches-the-launch-pad

NASA's Artemis program will land the first person of color on the moon by Ashley Strickland

• https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/09/world/nasa-artemis-person-of-color-crew-scn/index.html

NASA's Artemis 1 moon megarocket rolls out to the launch pad today and you can watch it live by Chelsea Gohd

• https://www.space.com/artemis-1-moon-megarocket-rollout-webcast

Why NASA’s new ‘Mega Moon Rocket’ is so incredible by Adam Mann

• https://www.livescience.com/megamoon-rocket-is-incredible

SpaceX Starship: Stunning Concept Art Reveals NASA’s New Lunar Lander by Mike Brown

• https://www.inverse.com/innovation/spacex-starship-nasa-new-concept-art

Inventions we use everyday that were actually created for space exploration by Josie Green

• https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/07/08/space-race-inventions-we-use-every-day-were-created-for-space-exploration/39580591/

How Heavy Is A School Bus? (Empty And Full) by Measuring Stuff

• https://measuringstuff.com/how-heavy-is-a-school-bus-empty-and-full/#:~:text=On%20average%2C%20an%20empty%20school,the%20weight%20of%20the%20passengers.

Thanos’ snap - is it actually possible? We’re not only exploring if it’ll work but the physics behind snapping your fingers. 

New high-speed video reveals the physics of a finger snap by Emily Conover

• https://www.sciencenews.org/article/finger-snap-physics-new-high-speed-video-thanos

The Surprising Physics of Finger Snapping by Karen Hopkin

• https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/the-surprising-physics-of-finger-snapping/

The ultrafast snap of a finger is mediated by skin friction by Raghav Acharya, Elio J. Challita, Mark Ilton and M. Saad Bhamla

• https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/doi/10.1098/rsif.2021.0672

How a Single Finger Snap Became a Scientific Game-Changer by Cayla Mihalovich

• https://www.webmd.com/brain/news/20220224/finger-snap-a-scientific-achievement

Snapping your fingers is a move worthy of a professional athlete by Elana Spivack

• https://www.popsci.com/science/finger-snapping-physics/

Why does weed smell like… well, weed? 

Why does cannabis smell skunky? by John Arnst

• https://www.livescience.com/why-cannabis-smells-like-skunk

Great News, Scientists Finally Figured Out Why Cannabis Smells 'Skunky' by Carly Cassella

• https://www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-know-why-cannabis-smells-skunk-y-and-the-answer-could-hold-health-benefits

Here’s the chemistry behind marijuana’s skunky scent by Ariana Remmel

• https://www.sciencenews.org/article/marijuana-skunk-smell-cannabis-pot-plant-chemistry

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Today, you’ll learn about how some cleaning products in your kitchen may be terrible for the environment even though they’re labeled “green,” hot blobs of iron playing games with Earth’s magnetic field and how some far-out theories in physics predict there are infinite versions of you.

How do household cleaning products affect the environment? by Alexandra Franklin-Cheung

• https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/how-do-household-cleaning-products-affect-the-environment/

Household Cleaning Products Market by Precedence Research

• https://www.precedenceresearch.com/household-cleaning-products-market

Are your cleaning products really green? Here’s how to tell. by Shaena Montanari

• https://www.popsci.com/story/environment/sustainable-cleaning-products/

EPA.gov

• Identifying Greener Cleaning Products
  • https://www.epa.gov/greenerproducts/identifying-greener-cleaning-products
• EPA Safer Choice-Certified Product Search
  • https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice/products
• EPA DfE-Certified Product Search
  • https://www.epa.gov/pesticide-labels/dfe-certified-disinfectants
• The Effects: Dead Zones and Harmful Algal Blooms
  • https://www.epa.gov/nutrientpollution/effects-dead-zones-and-harmful-algal-blooms

How to find ‘green’ cleaning products that get the job done by Laura Daily

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/choosing-green-cleaning-products/2021/08/23/e7a20ba4-fea2-11eb-ba7e-2cf966e88e93_story.html

Microplastics are everywhere — but are they harmful? By XiaoZhi Lim

• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01143-3

Cosmetic Fragrance and Flavor Ingredient Right to Know Act of 2021 by Breast Cancer Prevention Partners

• https://www.bcpp.org/resource/cosmetic-fragrance-and-flavor-ingredient-right-to-know-act-of-2021/

Hot blobs of iron playing games with Earth’s magnetic field. 

The Magnetic North Pole Is Rapidly Moving Because of Some Blobs by Jennifer Leman

• https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a32496561/why-magnetic-north-pole-moving/

The north magnetic pole is leaving Canada for Siberia. These 'blobs' may be the reason why. by Laura Geggel

• https://www.livescience.com/magnetic-north-pole-to-siberia.html

Fact check: A compass is oriented to the Earth's magnetic field lines, doesn't prove flat earth by Kate S. Petersen

• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/02/22/fact-check-compass-works-globe-because-magnetic-field-lines/6848272001/

Strong planetary magnetic fields like Earth's may protect oceans from stellar storms by Royal Astronomical Society

• https://phys.org/news/2019-03-strong-planetary-magnetic-fields-earth.html

Origins of Earth’s magnetic field remain a mystery by Jennifer Chu

• https://news.mit.edu/2020/origins-earth-magnetic-field-mystery-0408

When north goes south: Is Earth's magnetic field flipping? by Chris Holt

• https://astronomy.com/news/2021/09/when-north-goes-south-is-earths-magnetic-field-flipping

Flip Flop: Why Variations in Earth's Magnetic Field Aren't Causing Today's Climate Change By Alan Buis, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

• https://climate.nasa.gov/ask-nasa-climate/3104/flip-flop-why-variations-in-earths-magnetic-field-arent-causing-todays-climate-change

How some far-out theories in physics predict there are infinite versions of you. 

Parallel Worlds Exist and Interact With Our World, Say Physicists by Bryan Nelson

• https://www.treehugger.com/parallel-worlds-exist-and-interact-with-our-world-say-4863488

Do parallel universes exist? We might live in a multiverse. by Vicky Stein and Daisy Dobrijevic

• https://www.space.com/32728-parallel-universes.html

The Real Science of the Multiverse by Jess Romeo

• https://daily.jstor.org/the-real-science-of-the-multiverse/

What is multiverse theory by Paul Sutter

• https://www.livescience.com/multiverse

Are Many Worlds and the Multiverse the Same Idea? by Sean Carroll

• https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/are-many-worlds-and-the-multiverse-the-same-idea

The weirdest idea in quantum physics is catching on: There may be endless worlds with countless versions of you. By Corey S. Powell

• https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/weirdest-idea-quantum-physics-catching-there-may-be-endless-worlds-ncna1068706

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Today, you’ll learn about the surprising sexual implications of the COVID pandemic, if the biggest comet ever discovered is going to end the world and how the natural power built into the ocean could, one day, power a bunch of stuff on land.

Even though we were all home during the pandemic, something else was on the rise. 

Covid chaos fueled another public health crisis: STDs by Alice Miranda Ollstein

• https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/12/covid-std-crisis-00015717

Why sexual identities shifted during the pandemic by Jessica Klein

• https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220224-why-sexual-identities-shifted-during-the-pandemic

The pandemic offered a unique chance for many people to come out as queer by Anna Iovine

• https://mashable.com/article/covid-coming-out-queer-lgbtq-pandemic

Scientists discovered the biggest comet ever - will it end the world? 

Largest comet ever observed bumps Hale-Bopp from pedestal by Stephanie Pappas 

• https://www.livescience.com/bernardinelli-bernstein-comet-largest

The Most Monstrous Comet Ever Known Is Headed Straight for Us by David Axe

• https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-biggest-comet-ever-discovered-bernardinelli-bernstein-is-headed-our-way

The 'megacomet' Bernardinelli-Bernstein is the find of a decade. Here's the discovery explained. by Meghan Bartels

• https://www.space.com/giant-comet-bernardinelli-bernstein-discovery-size-activity

Mega Comet Arriving From the Oort Cloud Is 85 Miles Wide by George Dvorsky

• https://gizmodo.com/bernardinelli-bernstein-biggest-comet-ever-1848502226

Comets by NASA

• https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/comets/overview

Oort Cloud by NASA

• https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/oort-cloud/overview/

People on land are trying to access the power of the ocean - here’s how. 

The US Is Finally Trying to Unlock the Power of Wave Energy by ​​Ysabelle Kempe

• https://grist.org/technology/the-u-s-is-finally-looking-to-unlock-the-potential-of-wave-energy/
• https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-is-finally-trying-to-unlock-the-power-of-wave-energy/

Federal spending bill expected to aid Oregon State wave energy, wildfire and mass timber projects by Sean Nealon

• https://today.oregonstate.edu/news/federal-spending-bill-expected-aid-oregon-state-wave-energy-wildfire-and-mass-timber-projects

European Marine Energy Centre - About Us

• https://www.emec.org.uk/about-us/

Can shore-based wave power unlock clean, affordable ocean energy? by Julian Spector

• https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/ocean-energy/is-shore-based-wave-power-the-key-to-unlocking-affordable-clean-energy-from-the-sea

NREL continues to explore marine wave energy by Ryan Kennedy

• https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/02/16/nrel-continues-to-explore-marine-wave-energy/

Wave Energy Market to See Booming Growth | Eco Wave Power, Carnegie Clean Energy, Mocean Energy by Newsmantraa

• https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/wave-energy-market-to-see-booming-growth-eco-wave-power-carnegie-clean-energy-mocean-energy

It’s settled: Where The Wave first started by Doug Williams

• https://www.espn.com/blog/playbook/fandom/post/_/id/18888/its-settled-where-the-wave-first-started

Scientists Figured Out How And When Our Sun Will Die, And It’s Going To Be Epic by Michelle Starr

• https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-figured-out-how-and-when-our-sun-will-die-and-it-s-going-to-be-epic

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If you like Curiosity Daily, you might like a new podcast from Animal Planet called Monsters Inside Me. For shocking, true stories about mysterious illnesses caused by parasites, check out Monsters Inside Me. 

In this episode, you'll learn how a creature feeds on the brain tissue of a young boy after he ingests worm eggs, and how a killer works its way through the body of a Vietnam veteran, laying waste to his organs and lymph system.

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Today, you’ll learn about trippy psychedelic drugs that could alter everything we know about mental health, a glacier on Mount Everest that is literally blowing away and an object in the far reaches of our solar system that may or may not be there.

Psychedelic drugs are making a comeback, but not on the party scene. They could be the future of mental health.

The Future of Psychedelic Science by Ryan O’Hare

• https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/220873/the-future-psychedelic-science/

About Us by Imperial Centre for Psychedelic Research

• https://www.imperial.ac.uk/psychedelic-research-centre

Back to the future: Psychedelic drugs in psychiatry by Peter Grinspoon, MD

• https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/back-to-the-future-psychedelic-drugs-in-psychiatry-202106222508

The Future Of Psychedelic Medicine Might Skip The Trip by Will Yakowicz

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/willyakowicz/2021/06/23/the-future-of-psychedelic-medicine-might-skip-the-trip-rick-doblin-bryan-roth-mindmed-darpa-maps

The worldview-changing drugs poised to go mainstream by Ed Prideaux

• https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210906-what-if-everyone-took-psychedelics

Top 10 Hardest-Throwing Pitchers in Baseball by Matthew Jussim

• https://www.mensjournal.com/sports/top-10-hardest-throwing-pitchers-baseball/

How Dock Ellis dropped acid and threw a no-hitter by Larry Getlen

• https://nypost.com/2014/08/31/pitcher-dock-ellis-dropped-acid-then-threw-a-no-hitter/

A glacier on Mount Everest is literally blowing away. 

Everest’s Highest Glacier has Lost 2,000 Years of Ice in 30 Years by Brandon Specktor 

• https://www.livescience.com/mt-everest-highest-glacier-rapid-ice-retreat

Behind the Scenes of a Comprehensive Scientific Expedition to Mt. Everest by Sandra Elvin, Pete Athans, Paul Mayewski, Jiban Ghimire, Aurora C. Elmore, and Valerie Craig

• https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(20)30536-4

Glaciers are shrinking fast. Scientists are rushing to figure out how fast by Rebecca Hersher

• https://www.npr.org/2022/02/08/1079227805/glaciers-are-shrinking-fast-scientists-are-rushing-to-figure-out-how-fast

Everest expedition with 6 CCI scientists sets 3 world records by UMaine News (Contact: Beth Staples)

• https://umaine.edu/news/blog/2021/10/06/everest-expedition-with-6-cci-scientists-sets-3-world-records/

25 of the strangest Guinness World Records ever by USA Today Travel

• https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/travel/news/2019/10/11/guinness-world-records-25-strangest-records-ever/40145381/

What is a glacier? by National Snow & Ice Data Center

• https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/glaciers/questions/what.html

Why That Giant Ice Cube Is in Your Drink by Anna Archibald

• https://www.thrillist.com/culture/why-that-giant-ice-cube-in-your-cocktail-is-really-important

An object in the far reaches of our solar system may or may not actually exist, but scientists are trying to find out for sure.

If Planet Nine exists, why has no one seen it? by Zaria Gorvett

• https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210216-the-massive-planet-scientists-cant-find

Uncovering the mystery of Planet Nine by Lucy Freeman

• https://www.bbcearth.com/news/uncovering-the-mystery-of-planet-nine

PLANET 9: OLD DATA COULD UNCOVER THE SOLAR SYSTEM'S NEWEST WORLD, 38 YEARS LATE by Passant Rabie

• https://www.inverse.com/science/have-scientists-actually-found-planet-9

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Today, you’ll learn about an unusual proposal to use human tinkle to make buildings on Mars, a billion-year-old black diamond with an interstellar history and what it’s going to take for airplanes to become totally electric. 

A very unusual proposal to use human waste products could allow us to build on Mars. 

Researchers propose making concrete with human bodily fluids by Hunter Dulay

• https://sciworthy.com/researchers-propose-making-concrete-with-human-bodily-fluids/

Mars explorers might make concrete-like materials from their own blood and urine by Amanda Kooser

• https://www.cnet.com/science/mars-explorers-might-make-concrete-like-materials-from-their-own-blood-and-urine/

Concrete on Mars Could Literally Be Made Out of Astronaut Blood, Sweat, And Tears by Michelle Starr

• https://www.sciencealert.com/mars-concrete-could-be-made-out-of-alien-dust-and-astronaut-blood

Blood, sweat, and tears: extraterrestrial regolith biocomposites with in vivo binders by A.D. Roberts, D.R. Whittall, R. Breitling, E.Takano, J.J. Blaker, S.Hay, and N.S. Scrutton

• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590006421000442#!

A Brief History of the Flush Toilet by The British Association of Urological Surgeons

• https://www.baus.org.uk/museum/164/a_brief_history_of_the_flush_toilet

What is Plasma? by University of Rochester Health Encyclopedia

• https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?ContentTypeID=160&ContentID=37#:~:text=The%20main%20role%20of%20plasma,blood%20through%20your%20circulatory%20system.

A billion-year-old black diamond has an interstellar - and very rich - history.  

The Enigma: Billion-year-old black diamond sold for £3.16m by BBC News

• https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60328375

A Huge Black Diamond, Purportedly From Outer Space, Is Now Up for Sale by Corryn Wetzel

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-massive-black-diamond-claimed-to-come-from-space-is-going-on-sale-180979438/

55-sided, 555-carat 'Enigma' black diamond (potentially from space) goes on sale by Harry Baker

• https://www.livescience.com/enigma-black-diamond-auction

Enigma Black Diamond Sells For $4.3 Million At Auction by Tanya Klich

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/tanyaklich/2022/02/09/enigma-black-diamond-sells-for-43-million-at-sothebys-auction/?sh=4d190d59361c

How an Ad Campaign Invented the Diamond Engagement Ring by Uri Friedman

• https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/how-an-ad-campaign-invented-the-diamond-engagement-ring/385376/

We have electric cars, but what’s it going to take for airplanes to become totally electric? 

What It’ll Take to Get Electric Planes Off the Ground by Gregory Barber

• https://www.wired.com/story/what-itll-take-to-get-electric-planes-off-the-ground/

The challenges and opportunities of battery-powered flight by Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, Alan H. Epstein, Yet-Ming Chiang, Esther Takeuchi, Marty Bradley, John Langford & Michael Winter 

• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04139-1

Electric Planes Are Coming Sooner Than You Think by Elissa Garay

• https://www.afar.com/magazine/electric-planes-are-coming-sooner-than-you-think

World's first electric plane start up parts ways with CEO in mysterious rift by Jennifer Korn

• https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/17/tech/eviation-ceo-exit/index.html

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Today, you’ll learn about how alien-like life figured out a bizarre way to survive at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, a donut-shaped machine that just set a bunch of records in the world of nuclear fusion and how babies are becoming superheroes in the fight against cancer and HIV.

Learn about how alien-like life figured out how to survive at the bottom of the Arctic ocean. 

'Alien-like' life thrives on dead matter in Arctic deep by Helen Briggs

• https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60308650

Fossil-eating sponges discovered in the Arctic by James Ashworth

• https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2022/february/fossil-eating-sponges-discovered-Arctic.html

Giant sponge gardens discovered on seamounts in the Arctic deep sea by Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/02/220208113915.htm

890-Million-Year-Old Fossills Are Sponges, Oldest Animals: Study by Abby Olena

• https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/890-million-year-old-fossils-are-sponges-oldest-animals-study-69031

Deep-sea sponges: Biotechnology and the blue economy by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

• https://www.fao.org/3/cb2738en/cb2738en.pdf

This donut isn’t what you think - it could set records in the world of nuclear fusion. 

A giant donut-shaped machine just proved a near-limitless clean power source is possible by Danya Gainor and Angela Dewan

• https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/uk/nuclear-fusion-climate-energy-scn-intl/index.htm

Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by Jonathan Amos

• https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60312633

Nuclear-fusion reactor smashes energy record by Elizabeth Gibney

• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00391-1

The new heroes in the fight against HIV are not who you expect: they’re babies! 

A Woman Is Cured of H.I.V. Using a Novel Treatment by Apoorva Mandavilli

• https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/health/hiv-cure-cord-blood.html

Testing cord blood transplants as a cure for leukemia — and HIV by Sabin Russell

• https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2022/03/hiv-cure-cord-blood.html

Progress in HIV/AIDS cure: N.Y. woman is free of HIV for 4 years by Leila Fadel interviews Dr. Carlos del Rio

• https://www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1082079030/progress-in-hiv-aids-cure-n-y-woman-is-free-of-hiv-for-4-years

A third person has been cured of HIV, scientists report by Nicoletta Lanese 

• https://www.livescience.com/third-person-cured-hiv-stem-cell-transplant-from-cord-blood

About HIV/Aids and Treatment by the CDC

• https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/whatishiv.html
• https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/livingwithhiv/treatment.html

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Today, you’ll learn about how COVID-19 may have revamped cities for the better, astounding new technology that could one day regrow human limbs and how an agricultural fertilizer is going from feeding the world to potentially powering the world.

The pandemic changed more than just our home lives, it also changed the way we live in our cities. 

The Pandemic Might Have Redesigned Cities Forever by Adam Rogers

• https://www.wired.com/story/the-pandemic-might-have-redesigned-cities-forever/

Pandemic-led decline of US cities may be reversing by Howard Schneider

• https://www.reuters.com/world/the-great-reboot/pandemic-led-decline-us-cities-may-be-reversing-2021-05-04/

Car-Free Transportation Gets Boost from U.S. Grant Program by Laura Bliss

• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-29/bike-pedestrian-infrastructure-favored-in-raise-grants

Pandemic-era Street Spaces: Parklets, Patios, and the Future of the Public Realm by John Bela

• https://dirt.asla.org/2021/09/09/pandemic-era-street-spaces-parklets-patios-and-the-future-of-the-public-realm/

The Status of Outdoor Dining Across the Country by Amy McCarthy

• https://www.eater.com/22833407/pandemic-outdoor-dining-america-impact-neighborhoods

Frogs found new legs with and exciting new breakthrough in limb regeneration.

A new device helps frogs regrow working legs after an amputation by Carolyn Wilke

• https://www.sciencenews.org/article/frog-leg-regeneration-new-device-regrow-amputation

Frogs regrow amputated legs in breakthrough experiment by Patrick Pester

• https://www.livescience.com/frogs-regrow-amputated-legs-in-lab

Could Humans Ever Regenerate a Limb? by Jesse Emspak

• https://www.livescience.com/59194-could-humans-ever-regenerate-limbs.html

How do we use frogs in research? by The Francis Crick Institute

• https://www.crick.ac.uk/news/2019-12-16_how-do-we-use-frogs-in-research

Scientists regrow frog’s lost leg by Tufts University

• https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/940952

Ammonia gets a bad rap, but a new “green” ammonia may be our solution to net zero carbon emissions.

Can ‘Green’ Ammonia Be a Climate Fix? by Nicola Jones

• https://www.wired.com/story/can-green-ammonia-be-a-climate-fix/

Green ammonia could produce climate-friendly ways to store energy and fertilize farms by Stephen Ornes

• https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2119584118

Ammonia: zero-carbon fertiliser, fuel and energy store by The Royal Society

• https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/low-carbon-energy-programme/green-ammonia

Satellite Data Detects Hundreds of New Sources of Ammonia Pollution by Jason Daley

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/satellite-data-detects-hundreds-new-sources-ammonia-pollution-180970967/

Watch this TED talk to get up to speed on green ammonia and shipping by Maria Gallucci 

• https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/sea-transport/watch-this-ted-talk-to-get-up-to-speed-on-green-ammonia-and-shipping

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Today, you’ll learn about a massively mysterious volcanic explosion that literally sent shockwaves around the world, how salty batteries are set to sweeten the competition in the energy storage industry and how scientists have no idea why animals keep evolving into crabs.

A volcanic eruption off the coast of Tonga affected the entire world. 

Scientists are Racing to Understand the Fury of Tonga’s Volcano by Robin Andrews

• https://www.wired.com/story/tonga-volcano-eruption-science/

Tonga Shrouded by Ash and Mystery After Powerful Volcano Erupts By Natasha Frost, Mitra Taj and Eric Nagourney

• https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/16/world/asia/tonga-tsunami-peru.html

Experts explain why Tonga eruption was so big by Nick Perry

• https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/experts-explain-why-tonga-eruption-was-so-big

Why the Tongan eruption will go in the history of volcanology by Alexandra Witze

• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00394-y

NASA scientists estimate Tonga blast at 10 megatons by Geoff Brumfiel

• https://www.npr.org/2022/01/18/1073800454/nasa-scientists-estimate-tonga-blast-at-10-megatons

Will sodium-based batteries be the future of electronics? 

Facts about Sodium by Stephanie Pappas

• https://www.livescience.com/28820-sodium.html

Sodium - Chemical Element by The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica

• https://www.britannica.com/science/sodium#ref278871

A Brief History of Salt by Time Staff

• https://time.com/3957460/a-brief-history-of-salt/

Sodium Batteries May Power Your New Electric Car by Gregory Barber

• https://www.wired.com/story/sodium-batteries-power-new-electric-car/

Sodium batteries are one step closer to saving you from a mobile phone fire by Robert F. Service

• https://www.science.org/content/article/sodium-batteries-are-one-step-closer-saving-you-mobile-phone-fire

Why do animals keep evolving into crabs? 

Animals Keep Evolving Into Crabs, and Scientists Don’t Know Why by Ed Browne

• https://www.newsweek.com/crabs-evolved-five-times-carcinization-scientists-dont-know-why-1638921#:~:text=It%27s%20true%3A%20Crabs%20keep%20turning,use%20for%20over%20140%20years

Why everything eventually becomes a crab by Sara Kiley Watson

• https://www.popsci.com/story/animals/why-everything-becomes-crab-meme-carcinization/

Animals Keep Evolving Into Crabs, Which Is Somewhat Disturbing by Caroline Delbert

• https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a34389129/crab-evolution-carcinization/

Creature Feature - Haunted Beaches: The Fleet-Footed Ghost Crabs by Andrew Hosie

• https://museum.wa.gov.au/creature-feature-haunted-beaches-fleet-footed-ghost-crabs

Coconut Crab Claw Strength Rivals Lion’s Bite, Study Shows by Landess Kearns

• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coconut-crab-claw-strength_n_583e0a54e4b0ae0e7cdaa99f

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Today, you’ll learn about a metallic object in space that might be worth seven hundred quintillion dollars, how genetically engineered pig hearts could save tons of human lives and how bioluminescent waves are putting on trippy light shows in the world’s oceans.

16 Psyche may be worth $700 quintillion dollars, but it’ll take a probe visiting the planetesimal to find out. 

16 Psyche: An Asteroid once thought to be worth $700 quintillion by Chris Young

• https://interestingengineering.com/asteroid-psyche-700-quintillion

Asteroid 16 Psyche Thought to Be Worth $10,000 Quadrillion Could Be a “Rubble Pile” by Aristos Georgiou

• https://www.newsweek.com/asteroid-16-psyche-worth-10000-quadrillion-rubble-pile-1599787

16 Psyche: The asteroid that could make every person on Earth a billionaire by Paul Ratner

• https://bigthink.com/hard-science/space-miners-race-to-an-asteroid-worth-quintillions/#rebelltitem2

NASA TO STUDY A $700 QUINTILLION ‘GOLDMINE’ ASTEROID by Matthew Hart

• https://nerdist.com/article/nasa-studying-goldmine-asteroid-700-quintillion-dollars/

Hubble Telescope reveals asteroid Psyche’s rusty surface by Amy Oliver

• https://earthsky.org/space/hubble-asteroid-psyche-iron-nickel-rust-protoplanet/

Science of Psyche: Unique Asteroid Holds Clues to Early Solar System by Naomi Hartono

• https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/science-of-psyche-unique-asteroid-holds-clues-to-early-solar-system

Asteroid Psyche by NASA

• https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/asteroids/16-psyche/in-depth/

One man was the lucky recipient of a heart transplant from an unlikely source - can organs from animals help humans? 

Will animal-to-human organ transplants overcome their complicated history? by Laura Beil

• https://www.sciencenews.org/article/animal-human-organ-transplants-pig-kidney-heart-history

Man gets genetically modified pig heart in world-first transplant by BBC News with analysis by Michelle Roberts

• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59944889

First-ever pig-to-human heart transplant offers hope for thousands in need of organs by Karen Weintraub

• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/01/10/human-pig-heart-transplant/9152951002/

The ethics of a second chance: Pig heart transplant recipient stabbed a man seven times years ago by Lizzie Johnson and William Wan

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/01/13/pig-heart-transplant-stabbing-david-bennett/

Bioluminescent waves are lighting up the oceans for swimmers and sealife alike. 

Dolphins, Surfers and Waves Sparkle in Bright Blue Bioluminescent Glow Off California Coast by Katherine J. Wu

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dolphins-waves-sparkle-bioluminescent-glow-california-coast-180974766/

The science behind bioluminescent waves by Harry Baker

• https://marinemadness.blog/2020/05/12/the-science-behind-bioluminescent-waves/

Bioluminescent Waves Light Up the Shoreline by Amanda Maxwell

• https://now.northropgrumman.com/bioluminescent-waves-light-up-the-shoreline/

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