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The newly discovered frog species in Australia carry tadpoles in their pockets. The hip-pocket frog, also known as the marsupial frog, is a critically endangered species living in the Australian rainforests. They lay eggs on the forest floor, rather than in the water, and after they liquify, tadpoles climb into small pouches near the top of their father’s legs.
[Source: Hexasoft / Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0]
The world’s most advanced lab-grown meat facility opens in California. As people become more aware of the devastating environmental cost of animal agriculture, there’s been a boom of vegan alternatives. One company, Upside Foods, offers something different: real meat but grown artificially in a lab. Would you try a lab-grown burger?
[Source: Missvain / Wikipedia CC BY 4.0]
Roman slave quarters were unearthed at Pompeii. Like everything discovered so far in this ancient Roman city, they are incredibly well-preserved and archaeologists speculate that it belonged to a family of three (parents and a child) who took care of nearby stables.
[Image by Anemone123 from Pixabay]
35 new black hole collisions were spotted. The international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration observed 35 new cosmic collisions that released gravitational waves (tiny vibrations in the fabric of space-time). 32 of them likely involved two colliding black holes. Another two were most likely a result of a much rarer collision of a black hole and neutron star. As to the final event, scientists are uncertain which objects were the cause.
[Image by David Mark from Pixabay]
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