This Book Fungus Hints At Alien Life

Plus, a pup reunites with his family after a 1,600-mile journey.
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Hotels Say Goodbye To Daily Room Cleanings And Hello To Robots As Workers Stay Scarce | NPR

HOTELS SAY GOODBYE TO DAILY ROOM CLEANINGS AND HELLO TO ROBOTS AS WORKERS STAY SCARCE

Travelers have returned from the pandemic, but hotel workers have not, creating unprecedented staffing challenges for the hospitality industry. According to the Labor Department, there are 350,000 fewer people working in hotels today than there were in February 2020, before the pandemic. NPR

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BALANCE: IT'S NOT JUST DIGITAL B2B PAYMENTS. IT'S PEACE OF MIND

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Dog That Went Missing In California Is Found A Year Later – In Kansas | The Guardian

DOG THAT WENT MISSING IN CALIFORNIA IS FOUND A YEAR LATER – IN KANSAS

A dog missing from its California home for more than a year has been found alive and well – albeit 1,600 miles away in Kansas. No one knows how Zeppelin, a three‑year‑old German shepherd mix, made the journey across a giant swath of the United States, but he is alive and well and is now heading home for Christmas. The Guardian

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Why A Book-Loving Fungus Has Alien-Hunting Scientists Excited | Inverse

WHY A BOOK-LOVING FUNGUS HAS ALIEN-HUNTING SCIENTISTS EXCITED

An Italian library is the last place you'd look for analogs for alien life, but it turns out that you should definitely look. Alien life might survive "uninhabitable" environments by simply changing them, suggests a recent study of — bizarrely enough — a fungus that grows on book covers in climate-controlled libraries. Inverse

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Scientists Propose Building City Inside Giant Bag Around Entire Asteroid | Futurism

SCIENTISTS PROPOSE BUILDING CITY INSIDE GIANT BAG AROUND ENTIRE ASTEROID

Researchers admit that it's "wildly theoretical" to propose putting a giant mesh bag around an asteroid to build space cities — but it's technically feasible, they argue. The major drawback of using an asteroid for this purpose is that they're often more of a collection of rubble than our Earth's solid surface. But that's where the mesh bag comes in. Futurism

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