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Today, you\u2019ll learn about a brilliant biotechnology that is turning mosquitoes against themselves, how babies use a slimy indicator to figure out who can be trusted and the freaky things that would happen if we messed with the speed of light.

Hate mosquitos? These modified mosquitoes do, too.\xa0

Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes may soon be buzzing in Florida and California. Here's why. by Ryan W. Miller

• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/03/08/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-florida-california/9424548002/

2 Billion Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Cleared for Release in California and Florida by Ed Cara

• https://gizmodo.com/2-billion-genetically-modified-mosquitoes-cleared-for-r-1848630797

California's first lab-grown mosquitoes may take flight\u2014stirring controversy by Lisa M. Krieger

• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-california-lab-grown-mosquitoes-flightstirring-controversy.html

Malaria\u2019s Impact Worldwide by The CDC

• https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/malaria_worldwide/impact.html

Mosquitoes and Disease by Illinois Department of Public Health

• http://www.idph.state.il.us/envhealth/pcmosquitoes.htm

Want a baby to trust you? Try sharing some spit.\xa0

Babies may use saliva sharing to figure out relationships by Erin Garcia de Jes\xfas

• https://www.sciencenews.org/article/baby-saliva-spit-sharing-relationships-kiss-food

Kids attend to saliva sharing to infer social relationships by Christine Fawcett

• https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn5157

Babies can tell who has close relationships based on one clue: saliva by Anne Trafton

• https://news.mit.edu/2022/babies-relationships-saliva-0120

When babies see people swap spit, they know what\u2019s what by Juan Siliezar

• https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn5157
  
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Let\u2019s keep lightspeed where it\u2019s at. Just trust us here.\xa0

What would happen if the speed of light was much slower? by Ashley P. Taylor

• https://www.livescience.com/what-if-speed-of-light-slowed-down

What Is Relativity? by Michael Schirber

• https://www.livescience.com/32216-what-is-relativity.html

What time is it? That depends on how fast you're traveling. by American Museum of Natural History

• https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/time/time-machines

'A Slower Speed of Light' turns the strangeness of near-light speed travel into a game by Janus Kopfstein

• https://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/11/6/3608218/a-slower-speed-of-light

How Fast is the Speed of Light by LTP NASA

• https://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/Numbers/Math/Mathematical_Thinking/how_fast_is_the_speed.htm#:~:text=Light%20travels%20at%20a%20constant,7.5%20times%20in%20one%20second.

How Fast is the World\u2019s Fastest Human? By Kara Rogers

• https://www.britannica.com/story/how-fast-is-the-worlds-fastest-human#:~:text=Speed%20is%20the%20rate%20at,was%2010.44%20meters%20per%20second.

The Doppler Effect by the Physics Classroom

• https://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/waves/Lesson-3/The-Doppler-Effect

The Most Extreme Human Spaceflight Records by Mike Wall

• https://www.space.com/11337-human-spaceflight-records-50th-anniversary.html

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