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Earth Hour 2024 Shines A Spotlight On The Health Of Our Planet

Earth Hour 2024 will occur on March 23 from 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm local time. The event, held annually toward the end of March, encourages individuals, communities, and businesses worldwide to turn off non-essential electric lights for one hour. The voluntary rolling blackouts are also observed by landmark structures such as the Eiffel Tower and the Empire State Building. They remind us of the urgent need to protect our planet....

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Earth Hour 2024 Shines A Spotlight On The Health Of Our Planet

Shape-Shifting Plastic May Be In Your Future

What if you could transform the plastic spoon you used at lunch into a cup for your water and then change it back to a spoon? That is precisely what researchers at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering had in mind when they created "pluripotent plastic."...

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Shape-Shifting Plastic May Be In Your Future

Eight-Year-Old Ashwath Kaushik Is The Youngest To Defeat A Chess Grandmaster

An 8-year-old has become the youngest player ever to defeat a grandmaster (GM) in classical chess. For those unfamiliar with the term, GM is the highest title a chess player can attain. Ashwath Kaushik achieved the incredible feat on February 18, 2024, after beating 37-year-old Jacek Stopa in round four of an international chess competition in Switzerland. Kaushik went on to finish in 12th place, but his victory over Stopa was the talk of the tournament....

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Eight-Year-Old Ashwath Kaushik Is The Youngest To Defeat A Chess Grandmaster

Stink Alert! A Giant Corpse Flower Is In Full Bloom In San Francisco

On February 27, 2024, biologists at San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences revealed that "Mirage," its resident titan arum, or corpse flower, had bloomed. The massive plants bloom once every seven to ten years. The flowers last just one to three days and emit a pungent odor reminiscent of rotting flesh. It is no wonder that titan arums are deemed the "world's stinkiest flower."...

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Stink Alert! A Giant Corpse Flower Is In Full Bloom In San Francisco