Plant-based bottles, video games teaching children about COVID, database helps conservation efforts
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Today on Squirrel News, we have stories about the plant-based water bottles that can degrade in just one year, the video game helping children to make sense of social distancing regulations, and the huge remote database that will massively help the conservation of endangered species.
Undocumented migrants in Italy granted work permits
In Italy, there are an estimated 560,000 undocumented migrants, and tens of thousands ot those could now become legal residents in a major step forward.
In the past, dogs have been trained to sniff out diseases like malaria, and researchers hope that this will help detect COVID, particularly in places like care homes.
The hi-tech robonauts, which are remotely operated from Earth, would greatly reduce NASA’s costs by carrying out tasks that usually require astronauts.
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South China Morning Post
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