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99 years ago today, sumptuous singer Nat King Cole recorded The Christmas Song, written by Mel Tormé and Bob Wells, for the first time. It is still today, lo-fi be darned, one of the most preferred versions of this icon of iconic yuletide tunes. While it’s a little early in the year for Christmas songs, YouTube […]

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A German bio-tech company has developed a naturally-occurring enzyme discovered in a cemetery into a near-market ready solution for recycling plastic without any loss of quality. In 2022, GNN reported on a paper published by Leipzig-based scientists who first identified the enzyme. At the time, the enzyme was subject to a small side-by-side test, and […]

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A Spanish startup has successfully tested a new thruster for spacecraft that runs on a ‘green’ propellant to replace the ultra-toxic hydrazine commonly used in the industry. It uses hydrogen peroxide, and is then not only less toxic but also substantially less expensive to run. Arkadia Space, which invented the thruster system, celebrated an in-orbit […]

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Two paintings have been recovered 40 years after they were stolen from an art museum in New Mexico, the FBI has reported. The paintings, by Victor Higgins and Joseph Henry Sharp, were stolen in March of 1985 from the Harwood Museum of Art at the University of New Mexico, which was primarily a public library […]

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