June 2019, ScientificAmerican.com 13K E N YA
A science teacher who won the 2019 Global Teacher Prize announced
he intends to donate the $1-million award to benefit society. Peter
Tabichi, a Franciscan friar, mentors a science club that came in first
in its category in the 2018 Kenya Science and Engineering Fair.NORTH KOREA
Physicists at Kim Il Sung University in Pyong-
yang have brokered a rare agreement to
collaborate with Italy’s International School
for Advanced Studies in Trieste. The North
Koreans will study computational neurosci-
ence with Italian physicists.For more details, visit
http://www.ScientificAmerican.com/
jun2019/advancesCOMOROS
Geochemists at Columbia
University found a lode of
quartzite, a metamorphic rock
formed from sandstone, on
the Indian Ocean island of
Anjouan. The island is volcanic
and had been thought to
contain only igneous rocks.INDIA
Biologists discovered a new
frog species, which is an inch
long, brown and speckled with
blue dots. Astrobatrachus
kurichiyana, dubbed the “starry
dwarf frog,” is found in the
Western Ghats Mountains.CANADA
Archaeologists have now confirmed that a Tyranno-
saurus rex skeleton found in the 1990s at a fossil site
in Saskatchewan is the biggest and heaviest on
record. At nearly 42 feet long and almost 20,
pounds, “Scotty” surpassed the record set by “Sue,”
which was found in South Dakota in 1990.ARGENTINA
Archaeologists identified
a site where ancient humans
killed and butchered giant
ground sloths ( Megatherium
americanum ) in the Pampas
region in eastern Argentina.
The find provides evidence
that humans contributed to
the sloths’ extinction.IN THE NEWSQuick
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By Jim Daley© 2019 Scientific AmericanK E N YA
A science teacher who won the 2019 Global Teacher Prize announced
he intends to donate the $1-million award to benefi t society. Peter
Tabichi, a Franciscan friar, mentors a science club that came in fi rst
in its category in the 2018 Kenya Science and Engineering Fair.NORTH KOREA
Physicists at Kim Il Sung University in Pyong-
yang have brokered a rare agreement to
collaborate with Italy’s International School
for Advanced Studies in Trieste. The North
Koreans will study computational neurosci-
ence with Italian physicists.For more details, visit
http://www.ScientificAmerican.com/
jun2019/advancesCOMOROS
Geochemists at Columbia
University found a lode of
quartzite, a metamorphic rock
formed from sandstone, on
the Indian Ocean island of
Anjouan. The island is volcanic
and had been thought to
contain only igneous rocks.INDIA
Biologists discovered a new
frog species, which is an inch
long, brown and speckled with
blue dots. Astrobatrachus
kurichiyana, dubbed the “starry
dwarf frog,” is found in the
Western Ghats Mountains.CANADA
Archaeologists have now confi rmed that a Tyranno-
saurus rex skeleton found in the 1990s at a fossil site
in Saskatchewan is the biggest and heaviest on
record. At nearly 42 feet long and almost 20,
pounds, “Scotty” surpassed the record set by “Sue,”
which was found in South Dakota in 1990.ARGENTINA
Archaeologists identifi ed
a site where ancient humans
killed and butchered giant
ground sloths ( Megatherium
americanum ) in the Pampas
region in eastern Argentina.
The fi nd provides evidence
that humans contributed to
the sloths’ extinction.IN THE NEWSQuick
Hits
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