There’s good news in what seems like bad news in today’s news.
Just when you thought 2020 couldn’t get any stranger, a two-headed snake was discovered in Florida. This after we learned that the first nest of murder hornets was found in the US.
The Asian giant hornet nest was discovered in Blaine, Washington, last Friday. The insects are known for their sting, which has been described as feeling like a hot nail driven into flesh. They also spray venom from their stingers, which can cause serious eye injuries.
One other headline from the world of science: “Naked mole rats kidnap each other’s babies, and turn them into slaves.” These rats produce massive colonies with as many as three hundred workers, the largest known colonies among mammals. Researchers have found rats that were kidnapped by a rival colony and made into enslaved workers.
Now to the good news: The two-headed snake in Florida is not venomous. The murder hornets in Washington were tracked down and destroyed by entomologists. And only two naked mole rat pups are known to have been stolen, at least so far.
How NASA will protect us from killer asteroids
In more bad news that isn’t, noted astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson warned recently that an asteroid could strike Earth the day before the November 3 election. However, he said the refrigerator-sized space rock is not large enough to do any serious damage. And data from NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies suggests there is zero chance that the asteroid will actually hit our planet.
In related news, NASA is building a space probe designed to protect us from killer asteroids. It launches next year and will be smashed into an asteroid seven million miles from our planet to…
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