Speaker 1: Calorokashock media are there? Johnny Mack with five good news stories.
Speaker 1: A study suggests that giraffes may be better at math
Speaker 1: than we thought. I don't know how good you thought
Speaker 1: giraffes were at math, but they're apparently better than you
Speaker 1: had thought. A researcher, sorry, I could edit that out
Speaker 1: because now I just find this. I'm believing it hopefully
Speaker 1: or smiling like I have. Okay, I do. Study for
Speaker 1: researchers in Spain and Germany suggest that giraffes may be
Speaker 1: capable of basic mathematical thinking. Scientists tested four giraffes at
Speaker 1: the Barcelona Zoo by placing different numbers of carrot pieces
Speaker 1: into two containers. After the containers were covered, researchers added
Speaker 1: or removed carrots while the giraffes watched, then gave the
Speaker 1: giraffes a chance to choose between them. When carrots were added,
Speaker 1: the giraffes went for the container with more parrots. They
Speaker 1: did that about sixty eight percent of the time, better
Speaker 1: than would be expected by random chance. Further testing suggested
Speaker 1: that at least two of the giraffes of the four
Speaker 1: in this huge study weren't simply following visual clues, but
Speaker 1: may have actually been keeping track of the carrots. The
Speaker 1: animals were less successful when carrots were removed, suggesting that
Speaker 1: giraffes are not good at subtraction. I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: One new solar power technology could make fresh water cheaper
Speaker 1: than bottled water. Scientists in China I figured out a
Speaker 1: solar power desalination system that could dramatically reduce the cost
Speaker 1: of turning seawater into safe drinking water. The experimental technology
Speaker 1: uses sunlight and specially engineered nanomaterials to evaporate seawater far
Speaker 1: more efficiently than previous designs. During a year long test,
Speaker 1: the system produced more than five gallons of clean drinking
Speaker 1: water every day, while also supplying enough fresh water to
Speaker 1: irrigate vegetables including corn, beans and backchoy. We'll stay in
Speaker 1: the ocean, Scientists have identified client resistant coral reefs. Using
Speaker 1: AI to analyze more than forty five thousand observations collected
Speaker 1: since nineteen sixty, researchers identified approximately sixty four thousand square
Speaker 1: miles of coral reefs that could remain resilient to climate
Speaker 1: change through at least twenty fifty The study found many
Speaker 1: of the climate resistant reefs are located in the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, Cuba,
Speaker 1: the Bahamas, Belize, Nicaragua, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Speaker 1: Scientists refer to these areas as coral refuges, places where
Speaker 1: reefs appear to be better withstanding warming oceans, recover more
Speaker 1: quickly from bleaching and avoid severe damage altogether. In Italy,
Speaker 1: some engineering students built the world's largest paper airplane. That's right.
Speaker 1: Students built a giant aircraft with a wingspan of nearly
Speaker 1: sixty six feet at a length of twenty three feet.
Speaker 1: The team called itself Project Icarus. They constructed the entire
Speaker 1: airplane using only paper and glue. The paper airplane flew
Speaker 1: nearly one hundred and ninety four feet during a launch
Speaker 1: at that we Make Future Technology Fair in Bologna that
Speaker 1: broke a record that had stood since twenty thirteen. The
Speaker 1: students said the project began as a joke. Friends were
Speaker 1: tossing airplanes between classes and then wondered how far they
Speaker 1: could push the idea using real engineering principles. In a statement,
Speaker 1: the team said months of study, simulations, mistakes and restarts followed.
Speaker 1: In the end, we managed to bring back to Italy
Speaker 1: a world record that had stood for thirteen years. Authorities
Speaker 1: in Sailand found themselves chasing one hundred monkeys. Yes, the
Speaker 1: one hundred monkeys had broken out of a local enclosure.
Speaker 1: Now if that sounds like a lot of monkeys, officials
Speaker 1: say workers managed to keep more than one thousand other
Speaker 1: monkeys from joining the jailbreak. Police and local officials were
Speaker 1: quickly dispatched around up the watering monkeys. The local area
Speaker 1: has spent the past several years relocating thousands of free
Speaker 1: roaming monkeys into large enclosures after the growing population became
Speaker 1: increasingly aggressive in searching for food. The damage that allowed
Speaker 1: the monkeys to escape has already been repaired, and plans
Speaker 1: are underway to build an even more secure double layers
Speaker 1: enclosure to prevent future monkey breakouts. However, not all the
Speaker 1: monkeys are back. The monkey roundup continues. If you're in
Speaker 1: Thailand and you see a monkey, please contact your local authorities.
Speaker 1: And those are your five good news stories for today.
Speaker 1: Have a great day.