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Shingrays, Space Lasers, And Pink Fairy Armadillos

This week in Break It Down, we discuss whether or not an aquarium in the US is about to become home to the world’s first “shingray,” how scientists are sending messages and power from space, a groundbreaking cancer breakthrough, fossil forgeries, and what on Earth a pink fairy armadillo is.

Sit back, relax, and let’s break it down…

Links:

Shingray: https://www.iflscience.com/shark-ray-hybrid-aquarium-suggests-shark-may-have-impregnated-their-lone-stingray-72919

Space lasers and radio messages: https://www.iflscience.com/nasa-just-received-laser-and-radio-messages-together-from-even-deeper-space-72873

Cancer breakthrough: https://www.iflscience.com/13-year-old-boy-cured-of-terminal-brain-tumor-in-world-first-72950

Fossil forgeries: https://www.iflscience.com/280-million-year-old-mystery-solved-as-forged-fossils-skin-identified-as-paint-72976

Power from space: https://www.iflscience.com/earth-has-received-power-beamed-from-a-satellite-in-space-for-the-first-time-72957

Pink fairy armadillos: https://www.iflscience.com/pink-fairies-the-worlds-smallest-armadillo-has-a-unique-double-skin-72954

The oral microbiome: https://www.iflscience.com/what-is-the-oral-microbiome-how-microbes-in-our-mouths-affect-our-health-72948

Bias In Science with Subhadra Das: https://youtu.be/N5n2efjSeg4?si=rtid8eAUuQRjrCnD

CURIOUS Feb issue: https://curious.iflscience.com/issue-19/full-view.html

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