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Has Madam Pomfrey’s Skele-Gro finally made its way to the muggle world? By Sruthi Sanjeev Balakrishnan – Regrowing bones is no easy task, but the world’s lightest solid might make it easier to achieve. Researchers have figured out a way to use hybrid …
By Nick Lavars – Monitoring the chemical makeup of sewage could offer useful insights on population health, possibly in real time. Ddraw/Depositphotos. – In a way it seems so obvious: find out what kinds of things people are putting into their bodies by studying …
New research suggests the concept isn’t so simple. By Christian Yates – If your dog has been alive and kicking its paws for about a decade, the widely held belief is that it has aged as much as a human would have …
Looking for signs of covert nuclear tests, scientists happened upon something rather unexpected instead. By Nina Pullano – Weather. It is the subject that unites us all, a guaranteed conversation-starter, and infamously unpredictable. Every year, meteorologists and news anchors across the United States …
SmartNews Keeping you current The Tennessee Aquarium’s internet-famous eel, Miguel Wattson, is powering Christmas lights in the exhibit. By Jason Daley, Smithsonian.Com – Stringing up holiday lights may add a few dollars to the December power bill, but the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga …
During World War II, the stalls served as rendezvous points for French Resistance fighters. Photographer Charles Marville captured this snapshot of an open-air urinal with three stalls in 1865. Public domain. By Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian.Com – To keep precious military intel …
“Faceless” Indus Valley City Puzzles Archaeologists. Mohenjo Daro 101 By John Roach – A well-planned street grid and an elaborate drainage system hint that the occupants of the ancient Indus civilization city of Mohenjo Daro were skilled urban planners with a reverence for …
How beekeeping helped heal an army veteran. By BBCEarth – After 20 years in the US Military, Eric Grandon’s life was in a downward spiral. Six tours to the Middle East, including Operation Desert Storm, had taken their toll on his body and …
By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business – New York (CNN Business) Ford has tapped McDonald’s to help it turn coffee parts into car parts. Starting this year, Ford is incorporating coffee chaff — coffee bean skin that comes off during the roasting process …
The robots love America. By Thor Benson – If you’re like pretty much every single human being, you’re not a fan of robocalls. Unfortunately, it appears this problem is only getting worse, and there isn’t a lot of hope that it will …