Several states have begun using recycled materials for paving of roads but Hawaii is the first to included discarded marine trash. Old fishing lines and plastic debris such as yogurt containers and milk jugs found along the beaches are shredded. Added to a mixture of asphalt, the paving material is being used to resurface road on Oahu. Marine debris,estimated to be 90 tons, has been taken from the water and beaches. The paving material made from the trash is also helping the environment.

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In the Sahara Desert of Niger, archeologists have discovered a new species of Spinosaurus. The dinosaur remains, the first Spinosaurus fossils to have been found in 100 years, dated back about 100 million years ago and were the size of a school bus! At least that is the size of the juvenile remains found. Archeologists aren't sure the size of an adult would have been. Named S. Mirabilis, meaning "amazing"", it is thought that the S. Mirabilis, which had a long snout, lived along rivers and caught fish

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If you like riding an elevator, you will love the world's longest outdoor escalator which recently opened in China. Found in the city of Chongquing, a series of elevators takes passengers 800 ft. up along a 3000 ft. elevator system. Called the "Goddess"", there are actually four moving walkways, eight elevators and 21 escalators and takes about twenty minutes to make the journey. Once at the top, there is a beautiful view of the Three Gorges.

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For the first time in history, four astronauts on the Artemis 11 mission traveled farthest away from the Earth, more than any other astronauts have ever done. They reached a distance of 252,756 miles away from Earth! They also traveled around the moon to see the side we never see, another first, taking amazing photographs. They also saw a solar eclipse and observed five meteors hitting the moon.The astronauts will splash down in their spacecraft, Orion, into the Pacific Ocean, on Friday. See some amazing photographs at this site: Photographs

Photograph from NASA.

Photograph from NASA

A piece of sewn elk hide was found in the Cougar Mountain Cave in the state of Oregon back in 1958. It was kept by its discoverer until he died and was eventually given to the Favell Museum. It was recently carbon dated and archeologist believe it is the oldest known example of something being sewn! It dates back to the Ice Age, about 12,900 to 11,700 years ago. It is believed that indigenous people of the area used animal hair and plant fiber to stitch the hide. It may have been part of a bag or piece of clothing.Because hides are organic material, they decay making it very rare to have made this discovery. "Photograph from Smithsonian Magazine