How Tesla demonstrated a radio-controlled boat in 1898

Researchers found that a freshwater microorganism called Halteria could consume chloroviruses and increase in population when those viruses were its available food. The discovery showed that viruses can act as nutrients within food webs, not only as infectious agents. It also suggested that viral particles may move energy through ecosystems in previously overlooked ways.

France abolished slavery in Madagascar in 1896, freeing about 500,000 people. Many remained in their former masters’ homes as servants or sharecroppers, so legal freedom did not immediately end dependent labor.