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President Donald Trump Has Become The First Sitting US President, In US History, To Be Impeached Twice By The US House Of Representative. He Was Accused Of Inciting Riot/Insurrection In The The US Capitol -- The Seat Of The US Congress, With His False Claim Of Election Fraud. He Faces Trial In The US Senate After Leaving Office.

A South Korean Start-Up, Petpuls, Based On More Than 10,000 Barks From 50 Dog Breeds, Have Developed An AI-Powered Device That Can Give “Voice,” Via Smartphone App, To Dogs. The Dog Collar Device Is Said To Be Able To Detect, From A Dog’s Bark, With A 90% Average Accuracy Rate, 5 Emotions Of Being Happy, Relaxed, Anxious, Angry, Or Sad.

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Researchers, In A Surprising Discovery, While Trying To Protect The The Micronesian Starlings Bird Nest In Guam, Have Discovered A New Type Of Snake Locomotion, In Which The Brown Tree Snake Can Form A Lasso, With Its Body, Around A Smooth Cylindrical Pole, To Get To A Bird’s Nest. This Discovery Could Help To Better Protect Birds In Guam.

Scientists, By “Reverse Aging” A 30 Ft Long 46-Year-Old Megalodon Fossil (MF), Have Deduced That Baby Megalodons Were More Than 6.5 Ft Long, And That The Babies, Like Modern Sharks, May Have Cannibalized Each Other In the Womb To Reach Such A Size. The MF, Which Existed 15 Millon Yrs Ago, Was Tugged From Rocks In Belgium In The 1860s.

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Scientists May Have Discovered The Oldest Python In The World. The Python, Called “Messelopython Freyi,” A New Python Species That Is 47 Myrs Old And About One Meter Long, Was Discovered At UNESCO World Heritage Site “Messel Pit,” In Germany. This Discovery Could Be A Major Leap Forward In Understanding Python’s Evolutionary History.

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The First Complete Platypus Genome Map, Indicating Platypus Is A Blend Of Vertebrate Animals Like Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals, May Explain Platypus Weirdness, As They Are Venomous And Lay Eggs Like Reptiles. But Feed Their Young With Milk And Have Furry Coats Like Mammals. The Map May Improve Our Understanding Of Other Mammals Evolution.

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Researchers Have Discovered A Strange Dinosaur Species, Called Ubijara Jubatus, About The Size Of A Chicken. The Dinosaur, Believed To Have Lived ~110 Myrs Ago In NE Brazil, Has Thick Long Hair That Runs Down Its Back, And Stiff Ribbon-Like Keratin Structures, Projecting 15cm From Its Shoulders, Used For Intimidation Or Attracting Mates.

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Elon Musk’s Electric Car Company, Tesla, Went Up In Value, Hitting, For The First Time On Wednesday the 6th Of January. 2021, The Market Value Of $700bn. This Increase In Share Price Also Made Elon Musk, Now Worth Over $185bn, The World’s Richest Man, Ahead Of Amazon Founder, Jeff Bezos, Who Held The Title Since 2017.

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A Ring, Named The Marigold, Or “The Ring Of Prosperity,” Has Set A New Guinness World Record For Having The Highest Number Of Natural Diamonds. The Ring, Which Weighs Over 165 Grams, Was Designed With 12,636 Diamond, Surpassing The Previous Record Holder, Which Was Designed With 7,801 Diamonds. Both Records Were Set In India.

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South Korea’s Population Falls For The First Time In History. South Korea, With The World’s Lowest Birth Rate, Is Alarmed As, In 2020, It Recorded More Deaths ( ~307,764 People) Than Births ( ~275,815 Babies Were Born). The Decline Is Attributed To The Poor Balance, For Women, Btw Work And Life, And The High Cost Of Raising A Family.

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Mr. Alex Padilla, Age 47, And California Secretary Of State Has Been Selected, By Governor Gavin Newsom, To Fill The Senate Seat Vacated By Vice-President-Elect Kamala Harris. This Selection Is A Big Deal As He Will Be The First Latino To Fill A US Senate Seat In The 170-Year History of California, A State That Is Home To 15 Million Hispanics.

Beak Whales, The Least-Known Marine Mammals That Account For A Quarter Of The Known Existing Whale Species, Are Very Rare To Spot And Are Usually Found Dead. But, For The First Time In the World, More New Beak Whales Species Were Spotted Alive In South China Sea And Pacific Ocean. Beak Whales Live And Forage In Deep-Sea Waters.

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Researchers Have Set A Distance Limit Of 44 km, Via Optical Fibres, For How Far They Can Send Entangled Qubits To Beam/Teleport Quantum Information With More Than 90% Accuracy. This Advancement, Given The Information Transfer Accuracy/Distance In A Blink, Promises a Huge Boosts In Internet Speed, Computational Power, And Network Security.

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The World’s Largest Freshwater Turtle, Rafetus Swinhoei, Which Is Also The World’s Rarest Turtle Due To Hunting And Medicinal Use Of Its Eggs In China, May Be Saved From Extinction, As A Female Specimen Has Been Found, In Dong Mo Lake In Vietnam In October 2020, For The Supposedly Only Male Species Living At Suzhou Zoo In China.

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Researchers Are Indicating Alligators As The Largest Species That Can Regrow Missing Limbs. But Unlike The Lizards, Alligators Do Not Regrow Skeletal Muscles, But Just “Cartilage, Connective Tissue, And Skin.” This Find Implies That Alligators Are More Regenerative Than Mammals, But Less Than Lizards. Limbs Regrowth Is A Survival Trait.

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Nearly 6,000 Satellites Circle Earth And About 60% Of Them Are Now Space Junk That Could Burn On Re-entry Into the Atmosphere, Creating Tiny Alumina Particles That Will Pollute The Environment. And Because Of This, Researchers Are Contemplating Developing Wooden Satellites, By 2023, That Would Burn Up Without Releasing Polluting Substances.

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Movile Cave, Discovered In SE Romania In 1986 After About 5.5 Million Years Of Being Cut-Off From The Outside World, Is A Highly Toxic Cave Thought To Be Devoid Of Life. But To The Contrary, Life Does Thrive In The Cave With The Largest Discovered Creature/ “King Of The Cave,” So Far, Being The 52 mm Long Troglobiont Centipede.

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Researchers, By Using Commonplace Materials Like Citric Acid, Hydrogen, And Catalysts, Developed An Uncomplicated Method For Turning CO₂ Into A Possible Zero Emission Liquid Fuel, Capable Of Powering Jet Aircraft. The Technique, Though Relatively Cheaper Than Processes Used To Turn Hydrogen And Water Into Fuel, May Be Difficult To Scale.

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Researchers, Based On Methods That Include DNA Analysis And CT Scans, Were Able To Discover A New Snake Species Called “Levitonius Mirus (LM).” LM, Also Known As Waray Dwarf Burrowing Snake, Is Native To An Archipelago In The Philippines That Includes 112 Land Snake Species. LM Are Among The Fewest Number Of Any Snake Species.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts, To Combat Climate Change, Will Be The First US City To Require All Gas Pumps In The City To Display Bright, Yellow Stickers That Says “Burning Gasoline, Diesel, And Ethanol Has Major Consequences On Human Health And The Environment, Including Contributing To Climate Change.” Other US Cities May Follow Soon.

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