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NASA has been monitoring an asteroid called Apophis for 17 years. They discovered the 335-metre space rock in 2004 and put it on their list of most hazardous asteroids. They originally said it could kill over 10 million people if it hit Earth in 2029. However, their latest prediction is that Earth will be safe from it for the next 100 years. It will come within 20,000 miles of Earth on April 13, 2029, when it will be at its closest point to the planet. The scientists used radar to predict the asteroid’s orbit around the sun. The space rock is currently 10.6 million miles away from Earth.

Denmark will build an artificial island 80km off its western coast in the North Sea. The island will be the size of 18 football fields and cost around $34 billion to build. It will produce enough electricity to power three million homes and help make Denmark carbon neutral. Denmark is Europe’s largest oil-producing country and will end its reliance on fossil fuels within three decades. It is expected to be in operation by 2033 and will help reduce CO2 emissions.

Scientists at Purdue University taught pigs to play video games. In the game, the player scores points for maneuvering a cursor using a joystick so as to hit a colored target. The player is in the middle of what looks like an abstract representation of a room, surrounded by four blue walls. Each wall, running the length of the screen, is a potential target, and the player need to hit any wall to complete the stage. Almost all of the pigs got to the one-sided target, though some did get to the small one- sided one-box target.  Purdue University’s online course on how to play games with pigs, with videos and tips on how-to videos can be taught with pigs. The online course is available online at: www.purdue.org/video-game-teaches. World of Boarcraft is a video game set up to mimic the behavior of a wild boar. The video game’s makers hope to attract more people to the animal kingdom.

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