Solving the RSS’s fiendishly tricky festive quiz will require general knowledge, logic and lateral thinking.

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The Sun is essential to all life on Earth, but where did it come from? ☀️

BBC World Service

Florida residents, you have a new neighbor — and it has the body of an eel and the spots of a leopard. It also has two small arms with gills sticking out of its body, and lives in the swamps of the Panhandle.

The creature is actually a new species of legless salamander or siren. It is being officially called Siren reticulata, or the Reticulated Siren, and its discovery was published in the journal PLOS One journal last week.

Scientists say the two-foot-long Reticulated Siren is among the largest species discovered in the United States in over 100 years.

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Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes — a millionaire many, many times over — is behind this big idea.

Chris Hughes earned nearly half a billion dollars after co-founding Facebook. Now he’s arguing for fairer wages in the form of a $500 monthly ‘social dividend’ for low- and middle-class Americans.

A new flexible patch sewn into your clothes could one day keep you warm—and lower your electricity bill at the same time.

About the dinosaur wars…? Somehow I find this whole discussion to be debated in a pretty narrow-minded fashion and it renders it, at least to me, fairly useless.

Environmental influences are important, too, but they are largely unsystematic, unstable and idiosyncratic.

• By Robert Plomin on December 14, 2018

HAPPENING NOW: MOU Signing on Himawari-8 Real-Time Web Collaboration among DOST-Advanced Science & Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI), Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS-DOST), Dost_pagasa, and NICT Japan.

For years immunotherapy has held huge promise. Finally, it seems to be coming to fruition with hopes for a cancer vaccine in the near future…