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July 24, 2020

4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About -- Episode 41


A mattress becomes a skateboard wheel!?! Something missing in a mammoth Maya monument. Rock 'n roll -- with real rocks! And a deep relationship. (Except one eats the other.) It’s 4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About…all with funding from the National Science Foundation.

Utah’s rock arches continue to whisper their secrets
https://attheu.utah.edu/uncategorized/arches-whisper-secrets/
University of Utah

Upcycling spongy plastic foams
https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=300522
Northwestern University

Exploring Methane Seep Ecosystems
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/deep-sea-worms-and-bacteria-team-harvest-methane
California Institute of Technology

Largest and Oldest Known Maya Structure Found
https://nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=300785&org=SBE&from=news
University of Arizona

Credit: National Science Foundation


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