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Today, you’ll learn about a revolutionary new system that can turn saltwater into drinking water with the help of the sun, how your brain chooses what memories to keep, and a super-Earth with a really dark side.  

Solar Drinking Water 

• “Solar-powered technology converts saltwater into drinking water emission-free.” King’s College London. 2024.  
• “Flexible batch electrodialysis for low-cost solar-powered brackish water desalination.” by Wei He, et al. 2024.  
• “Valuing Water.” United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. 2021. 

Forgetting Memories 

• “How the brain chooses which memories are important enough to save and which to let fade away.” by Linda Carroll. 2024.  
• “Relax! It’ll boost your memory, study shows.” by Kate Kelland. 2010.  
• “Normal and Abnormal Sharp Wave Ripples in the Hippocampal-Entohinal Cortex System: Implications for Memory Consolidation, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.” by Zhi-Hang Zhen, et al. 2021.  

Super-Earth 

• “This super-Earth is the first planet confirmed to have a permanent dark side.” by Joseph Howlett. 2024.  
• “LHS 3844 b.” NASA Exoplanet Catalog. N.d.  
• “Tidal Locking.” NASA. 2024. 

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