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Parkinsons? Try pig brain cells.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2133959-pig-brain-cells-implanted-into-brains-of-people-with-parkinsons/

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Jupiter’s early formation protected Earth

Jupiter’s early formation acted as an effective barrier against inward transport of material across the solar system disk, potentially explaining why our solar system lacks any super-Earths.  Effectivelly protecting the Earth.  Jupiter’s core grew to about 20 Earth masses within 1 million years, then to about 50 Earth masses for 3-4 million years before it’s final 300 EMs.

via Evidence that Jupiter is the oldest planet in the solar system.

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Floating solar farms? It’s about time!

China has finished the largest floating (40 megawatts) solar farm in the entire world in the past week.

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-solar-farm-china-energy-ambitions.html

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Hubble Shows Evidence of Einsteins’s Gravitational Microlensing

Hubble produces evidence of gravitational microlensing of stars, predicted by Einstein in 1919.

via New confirmation of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.

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Mount Saint Helens Pyroclastic Flows

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroclastic_flow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_St._Helens#2004_to_2008_activity

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Stem Cell Fillings Allow Teeth to Heal Themselves

Regenerative dental fillings allow teeth to heal themselves—potentially eliminating the need for the high-pitched drilling inherent in root canals.

via Stem Cell Fillings Allow Teeth to Heal Themselves.

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Central Kalimantan Bay Cat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E5V3tnBhE4

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New form of carbon that’s hard as a rock, yet elastic, like rubber

A team including several Carnegie scientists has developed a form of ultrastrong, lightweight carbon that is also elastic and electrically conductive. A material with such a unique combination of properties could serve a wide variety of applications from aerospace engineering to military armor.

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-carbon-hard-elastic-rubber.html

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Are we 300,000 years old not 150,000?

http://interestingengineering.com/discovery-300000-homo-sapiens-fossils-human-history/

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Bird caught in amber 100 million years ago

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2133981-bird-caught-in-amber-100-million-years-ago-is-best-ever-found/