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Upside Foods stillneeds approval from the U.S.Department of Agriculture beforeits lab-grown chicken can make itto your plate. This past November,the FDA gave the green lightto lab-grown chicken made bythe California-based companyUpside Foods. --Kassidy Jack THE POWER OF PEE This bar graph shows the number of seagrass shoots that grew in eachset of study plots after 60 days. For the firsttime, the U.S. Food and DrugAdministration (FDA) has decidedthat a lab-grown meat product issafe to eat. [Extracted from the article]

Researchers recently completed a series of experiments onthe International Space Station (ISS) exploring how theserounded flames behave in a near-weightless microgravityenvironment. These experiments canalso help scientists improve the efficiency of processeson Earth that rely on combustion--like furnaces and powerplants. Space Balls of FIRE When you light a candle on Earth, its flame rises intothe shape of a teardrop. [Extracted from the article]

2Types of skin-damagingultraviolet (UV) rays emitted bythe sun: UVA rays causewrinkles, and UVB rayscause sunburn and skin can 4,000 YEARS AGO:Earliest known useof sunglasses. Last year,the spacecraft officially crossed intothe sun's corona--the outermost layerof the star's atmosphere. TOUCHING THE SUN In April 2021, NASA's Parker SolarProbe became the first human-madeobject to "touch" the sun. [Extracted from the article]

SCIENCE NEWS BIOLOGY: ARCHAEOLOGY This past summer, archaeologists uncovered a troveof artifacts at an ancient burial site in northern Egypt. Therinds included more than 250 sarcophagi--ancient woodor stone coffins--containing well preserved mummies. [Extracted from the article]

PHOTO (COLOR): ROBO-SHRIMP: This robot models the punch of the mantis shrimp. When its latch is released, a spring-loaded arm whips out at 93 kilometers (60 miles) per hour--nearly the same speed as the mantis shrimp's club. The peacock mantis shrimp delivers one of the strongest and fastest punches in the natural world. [Extracted from the article]

PHOTO (COLOR): ROLE MODELS: (top to bottom) The collection also Includes nurse Amy O'Sullivan, vaccinologlst Sarah Gilbert, Dr. Kirby White, Dr. Audrey Sue Cruz, and Dr. Jaqueline Goes de Jesus. This past summer, the Mattel toy company created six Barbie dolls to honor a group of women who worked tirelessly to help their communities during the Covid-19 pandemic. PHOTO (COLOR): MINI-ME: Dr. Chika Stacy Oriuwa, a psychiatry resident from Toronto, Canada, poses with her one-of-a-kind doll. [Extracted from the article]

To keep used gum off sidewalks, French design students Hugo Maupetit and Vivian Fischer created a method to recycle it--into skateboard wheels! GUM-MADE WHEELS Hugo Maupetit and Vivian Fischer have transformed used gum into skateboard wheels in four sizes and three different levels of hardness. When people spit out globs of chewing gum, the gooey stuff tends to stick around. [Extracted from the article]