This week in Break It Down, we discuss whether or not an aquarium in the US is about to become home to the world’s first “shingray,” how scientists are sending messages and power from space, a groundbreaking cancer breakthrough, fossil forgeries, and what on Earth a pink fairy armadillo is.
Sit back, relax, and let’s break it down…
Links
Shingray: https://www.iflscience.com/shark-ray-hybrid-aquarium-suggests-shark-may-have-impregnated-their-lone-stingray-72919
Space lasers and radio messages: https://www.iflscience.com/nasa-just-received-laser-and-radio-messages-together-from-even-deeper-space-72873
Cancer breakthrough: https://www.iflscience.com/13-year-old-boy-cured-of-terminal-brain-tumor-in-world-first-72950
Fossil forgeries: https://www.iflscience.com/280-million-year-old-mystery-solved-as-forged-fossils-skin-identified-as-paint-72976
Power from space: https://www.iflscience.com/earth-has-received-power-beamed-from-a-satellite-in-space-for-the-first-time-72957
Pink fairy armadillos: https://www.iflscience.com/pink-fairies-the-worlds-smallest-armadillo-has-a-unique-double-skin-72954
Extras
The oral microbiome: https://www.iflscience.com/what-is-the-oral-microbiome-how-microbes-in-our-mouths-affect-our-health-72948
Bias In Science with Subhadra Das: https://youtu.be/N5n2efjSeg4?si=rtid8eAUuQRjrCnD
CURIOUS Feb issue: https://curious.iflscience.com/issue-19/full-view.html
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