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Encounter with a Killer whale whilst out paddle boarding in New Zealand

Scientists in China have developed a light emitting transparent  folding paper. The thin paper is made By mixing wood flour bio compatible quantum dots -- nano scale, semiconducting crystals formed from zinc and selenium . This should allow for an advancement in folding electronics. Source UPI

Researches in the United States from the  Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences  say that female children of service personnel  are at a higher risk of becoming obese that civilian  females of that age. Military  dependents  reported more  binge  eating that there civilian counter parts, a  previous  report said that the military children where under more stress than civilian children. For the full story go to   Science Daily

The number of spacecraft orbiting Mars has now reached a record of  five and NASA has taken steps to beef up its monitoring and communications to ensure that the craft do not come to close to each other.