Good morning, and welcome to Kid News. I'm Tori.

Today is Wednesday, June 7, 2023, and we begin with the field of Republican presidential

wannabes starting to bust at the seams. Today in Iowa, on his 64th birthday, former vice

president Mike Pence will announce his intention to run for the nation's top office, setting

up a battle royale with his former boss and fellow candidate Donald Trump. And last night,

former New Jersey governor Chris Christie also threw his hat in the ring. That brings

the number of 2024 GOP hopefuls to at least eight. And while it's rare for those in the

party of a sitting president to mount a challenge, so far two Democrats plan to, environmental

lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and self-help author Marianne Williamson, both are considered

long shots.

It's being touted as the holy grail of physics and a discovery that will change the world

A team of scientists from Ohio University, Argonne National Laboratory, and the University

of Illinois, Chicago have finally managed to x-ray a single atom. According to the Good

News Network, until now, the closest they've gotten with an x-ray is an Atogram, which

is about 10,000 atoms. The researchers behind the breakthroughs say it paves the way to

find cures for major life-threatening diseases, the development of super fast quantum computers,

and a whole lot more.

Atoms are the basic building blocks for all matter in the universe. How tiny are they?

As reported in the book Inquiry into Physics, there are as many atoms in a single golf ball

as the number of golf balls it would take to fill up a sphere, the size of Earth.

For years now, we've reported on pandemic-related shortages, but this is the first time we've

heard of a run on a color. And while COVID supply chain issues were the root cause, it was

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