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• Earth has an electric field, NASA just found out

• Why Brazilian Moms Want Cannabis

• A better way to recycle plastic

• World’s first green dino skeleton

Earth has an electric field, NASA just found out

On May 11 2022, NASA launched the Endurance rocket from the Svalbard rocket range, the northernmost rocket range in the world, which reached an altitude of 477 miles before splashing down in the Greenland Sea, 19 minutes later. 

During its flight, Endurance collected data about changes in electric potential, which turned out to be 0.55V, just about the voltage of a watch battery. But it confirmed that other than a magnetic and gravitational field, Earth also has a weak electric field, which was hypothesized six decades ago. 

Called ambipolar electric field, this weak electric field is responsible for the phenomenon of polar wind, where a steady outflow of charged particles occurs at the Earth’s poles. 

The research findings were published in Nature. 

Why Brazilian Moms Want Cannabis

Mothers in Sao Paolo, Brazil have succeeded in passing legislation that allows medical cannabis to be made available for free through its public healthcare system.

Pediatricians prescribe cannabis after other medications fail to reduce the time of seizures in epilepsy patients. With the use of medical cannabis, seizure times have reduced from a few minutes to 30-40 seconds. 

A bottle of cannabinoid oil can cost US$180, which in some cases can be more than half of the monthly take-home salary for some families. A Bill to regulate cannabis at a federal level has been stalled for years. 

But after a decade-long campaign, mothers of children who get seizures now have access to CBD oil for free. 

More on this story in Africa News

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A better way to recycle plastic

Researchers at ETH Zurich have now detailed a new process that allows plastic to be recycled without affecting its quality, paving the way for a future where plastic can truly be recycled. 

While most urban councils run extensive programs to collect plastic waste, estimates suggest that only five or six percent of plastic is actually recycled, while the rest ends up in landfills. 

Even when plastic is recycled, the new plastic is often of inferior quality and not used for the same applications where plastic was originally used. 

This might be set for a change after ETH researchers have found a process where the long chains of plastic can be broken down into smaller molecules that serve as basic ingredients for new plastic or for other applications such as jet fuels. 

You can read more about this research in Nature Chemical Engineering. 

World’s first green dino skeleton

A 150 million-year-old dinosaur fossil first spotted in 2007 is officially the world’s first green dinosaur skeleton, and it may belong to a new species altogether. 

When it was found at Utah, the fossil was considered a mix of bones from diplodocus, stegosaurus, allosaurus, camarasaurus and other species but after years of reconstruction efforts, scientists are now confident that they have found a new species of dinosaur. 

The reconstruction of the skeleton is now complete and the dinosaur is believed to have been a herbivore with a long neck and tail and about 75 feet long. While this sounds like a diplodocus, what makes it unique are its green bones. 

The team suggests that volcanic activity around 50-80 million years ago may be responsible for change in the color of the bones of the fossil. 

The research findings were published by NatGeo.

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