Among the items in the subscriber section of this Fix the News:
— Solar panels produced 51 percent of California’s electricity in May, making it the world’s first major economy to cross the 50 percent threshold, Canary Media reports.
— Researchers in South Korea have developed a material that can repair imperfections in soft contact lenses using just an hour of ultraviolet light, paving the way for lenses that resist scratches and repair themselves, according to Interesting Engineering.
— Scientists had thought that dinosaur fossils were little more than mineralized rocks. But researchers led by the University of Liverpool have found evidence that traces of original organic molecules, including collagen, still exist inside dinosaur bones dating back about 66 million years.
If proteins can survive in fossils for millions of years, scientists may gain an entirely new way to study extinct animals, says Science Daily.
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