This Popular Food Was Found to Remove Microplastics from the Human Body in a New Study

Kimchi is a delicious solution to the problem of microplastics accumulating in the human body. 

In summary "The lactic acid bacterium found in the dish helps bind nanoplastics inside the intestine, allowing them to remain together when exiting through the bowel."

The answer is that we should all be eating more fermented vegetables. 

https://people.com/popular-food-found-to-remove-microplastics-from-human-body-new-study-11932883

Wind & Solar Generated A Record 17% Of U.S. Electricity In 2025 - CleanTechnica

In spite of the derision, we've reached a point where wind and solar power generation in the US combined to provide about 17% of the total power in 2025. 

It's only a modest increase over 2024, but it's nice to see it headed in the right direction. 

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/03/20/wind-solar-generated-a-record-17-of-u-s-electricity-in-2025/

Ultra-fast EV truck charger hits 1 MW using just 500 kW grid power

Here's a novel approach to fast, high capacity charging that larger vehicles need. 

What researchers have done is to integrate several components, and a little bit of electronic management.  They created a system that can draw smaller amounts of power at any given time by using batteries and other pieces of tech to increase the amount of power and allow for speed an efficiency - at over 98% efficient it blows away current fast charging. 

https://interestingengineering.com/energy/mega-ev-truck-charger

Chinese Orbiter Crushes Starlink With a 2-Watt Laser From 36,000km Above Earth

A team in China has developed a laser that can transmit data from a high earth orbit to a ground station that far exceeds the data stream that SpaceX uses in starlink. 

It's the next evolutionary step in seamlessly transmitting data from deep space - and to allow for transmission worldwide in near-real time via a satellite. 

With fewer satellites, and the potential for lower cost. 

https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/03/chinese-satellite-outpaces-starlink-2-watt-laser-from-orbit/

Humans in The Andes Appear to Have Evolved a Strange Genetic Ability : ScienceAlert

Here's a story about people in a region of Argentina, high in the Andes, who have evolved to be able to process high levels of arsenic. 

Humans have lived there for over 7,000 years, and the arsenic level in the water is 200 times what is considered the safe limit. Yet, these people have thrived there. 

Another amazing example of adaption and a form of evolution to meet the surroundings. 

Aside: there are some among us who stupidly ask why there are still monkeys if we evolved from them. I would ask why are they still here if some have evolved to process arsenic? That's clearly an ability they don't have, ergo they shouldn't exist, right?

https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-in-the-andes-appear-to-have-evolved-a-strange-genetic-ability

https://www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fungus-seems-to-have-evolved-an-incredible-ability#

Check this out. Inside of the still very radioactive reactor at Chernobyl, scientists have found a fungus clinging to the wall. And it's thriving. They believe the way it lives is through a process is something like photosynthesis, but they're calling it radiosynthesis given the way it soaks up radiation. 

Life seems to always find a way. 

https://www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fungus-seems-to-have-evolved-an-incredible-ability

Incredible new NASA images reveal Saturn in a new light — and it's all thanks to a telescope team-up from Webb and Hubble | Space

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists took some amazing visible light photos of Saturn. 

Then, they turned the James Webb Space Telescope to it, and got some incredible infrared shots of Saturn. 

Using both, they currently have a pretty detailed look at our celestial neighbor. 

https://www.space.com/astronomy/saturn/incredible-new-nasa-images-reveal-saturn-in-a-new-light-and-its-all-thanks-to-a-telescope-team-up-from-webb-and-hubble