1.8.2 🥔🔋 Sunday Links... Potato Batteries, Water in Space, Jetpacks, Humans and Tails

This Sunday our links feature a potato battery than can light up a room like your friendliest energetic friend. Also apparently there's a 12 billion year old body of water floating out there in space. Plus why humans no longer have tails, how chickadees remember where they stash their snacks, why we still don't have jetpacks to travel around, and more.

A Potato Battery Can Light Up a Room For Over a Month | Innovation| Smithsonian Magazine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/a-potato-battery-can-light-up-a-room-for-over-a-month-180948260/

12-billion-year-old body of water discovered floating in space by astronomers
https://www.uniladtech.com/science/space/12-billion-year-old-body-of-water-floating-in-space-028676-20240402

Groundbreaking Study Reveals Why Humans No Longer Have Tails
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07095-8

Chickadees Use Brain-Cell ‘Barcodes’ to Remember Where They Stashed Their Snacks
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chickadees-use-brain-cell-barcodes-to-remember-where-they-stashed-their/

The rise and fall of the jetpack
https://bigthink.com/the-past/jetpack/

Thuban, the star that was once Earth's North Star
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/thuban

Why we need to rethink what we know about dust
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-rethink.html