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<td style="width:30%"><b> Finding Ways To Control Lantern Flies </b></center>

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<p> This is an article about how we are learning to control lantern flies. We currently have two methods to deal with lantern flies, one is pesticides, and the other is a trap, but both of them are not good enough to stop lantern flies. We found that fungi will attack lantern flies which control them. Some animals native to our country developed a taste for these bugs. We are researching how to use insects to control lantern flies. These are some of the ways we are trying to find in order to control lantern flies.

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<br/>Source: <b><i>[https://www.popsci.com/environment/spotted-lanternfly-update/(Full article...)]</i></b>

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<p> On Monday, a European spacecraft launched from the coast of Florida. The spacecraft, Hera, is set to advance to the site of an asteroid that NASA purposely blew up via another spacecraft two years prior. With Hurricane Milton imminently on its way to cause catastrophe and devastation along Florida’s gulf, Dr. Pelzer stated that he felt relieved that Hera launched without any complications. Sci-fi movies like Armageddon have, in the past, suggested that any threatening asteroid or comet would be eliminated through nuclear explosions. Scientists, however, are planning on taking another approach, one that wouldn’t produce that interesting a film. They simply plan on knocking potential asteroid or comet threats out of the way. This is a strategy known as kinetic impact deflection.

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<br/>Source: <b><i>[https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/07/science/hera-asteroid-launch-spacex.html?searchResultPosition=7(Full article...)]</i></b>

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<p> In 1898, two Tsavo lions living along the Tsavo River devoured around 35 railroad workers in the span of nine months. The workers ceased their work until Colonel Patterson shot the two cats. Decades later in the 1990s, Dr. Gnoske noticed hair fragments in the cats’ cracked canine teeth. Dr. Gnoske concluded that the lions had developed a preference for human flesh as it was easier to chew with damaged teeth. Dr. Gnoske and his team of scientists focused on the DNA evidence found in the hair. This DNA proved to be sufficient enough and was relatively easy to decipher. The team compared their DNA findings with DNA of oryx, waterbuck, zebra, and giraffe which all proved to be a match. The team also discovered that modern Tsavo lions prefer Cape buffalo as opposed to its ancestors who had no hint of Cape buffalo DNA in the hair fragments found in their teeth.

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<br/>Source: <b><i>[https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/11/science/tsavo-lions-man-eating-dna.html(Full article...)]</i></b>

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<td style="width:30%><b> NASA Plans To Send Humans To Mars </b></center>

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<p> NASA plans to send humans to Mars by 2030. NASA is currently calculating what the distance is to get to Mars. NASA calculated the distance to Mars, which is about 250 million miles.NASA has plans to build a civilization on Mars. NASA plans to go to the moon as a starting point to get to Mars. These are some plans that Nasa has to get to Mars.air.<br/>Source: <b><i>[https://www.popsci.com/science/nasa-wants-to-send-humans-to-mars-in-the-2030s/(Full article...)]</i></b>

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<td style="width:30%"><b> Sacrificing A Town To Feed Others </b></center>

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<p> A drought leaves a village submerged in the waters of Athens. During the 1970’s a village had to sacrifice more than 80 houses. The village sacrificed many houses to supply Athens with water.

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After over 30 years submerged underwater, the village reappeared. People sometimes go there to remember what the village was like. This is how a village sacrificed itself to supply Athens in its

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worst droughts. <br/>Source: <b><i>[https://www.popsci.com/environment/drought-exposes-sunken-village/(Full article...)]</i></b>

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<td style="width:30%><b>How To Protect Yourself From The West Nile Virus </b></center>

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<p> People are getting a deadly virus and dying, but how can you protect yourself? An outbreak happened in 1999 and people were getting encephalitis for almost no reason, the outbreaks have been a lot worse even in 2024. An investigation has been made and they have found the cause; mosquitoes. To keep yourself safe, you should eliminate all moisture in your house, because

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without moisture, mosquitoes cannot breed. To also keep yourself safe, you should wear long sleeves to prevent bites. These reasons are why you should be serious and be safe about the West

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 <br/>Source: <b><i>[https://www.popsci.com/health/west-nile-virus-protection/(Full article...)]</i></b>

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