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With Ether Surging Past $3,200, The Creator Of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, Age 27, Is Now The World’s Youngest Crypto Billionaire. Buterin’s Crypto Wallet Holds ~333,500 Ether Worth $1.029 B. Ethereum Is The Most Actively Used Blockchain. And Ether Is The Second Largest Cryptocurrency, After Bitcoin, With A Market Cap Of $364 B.

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Researchers, Via Hubble Space Telescope, May Have Discovered The Youngest Exoplanet Planet Called PDS 70b. The Planet, 379 LY From Earth, Is As Big As Jupiter And Still Growing, Showing For The First Time Mass Being Pulled Onto A Planet From The Young Star It Orbits. This Discovery Could Shed Light On How Similar Gas Giant Planets Formed.

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Researchers May Have Discovered The Oldest Water Sample On Earth, In 2009, At A Depth Of 3km, In A Base Metal Mine In Timmins, Ontario. The Water Sample, Dated To 1.6 Byrs, Could Offer Clue About Life Possibilities On Mars Or Other Planets. The Water, 10 Times Saltier Than Seawater, Is Said To Comprise Ingredients Necessary For Life.

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The Largest 4-Year, 350 Patients Involved Case Study On Essential Oil (EO) Related Seizures, Specifically, Eucalyptus And Camphor Oil, In Adults, Provides New Evidence On EO Related Seizures Caused By Inhalation, Ingestion Or Topical Use Of EO, As Majority Of The Seizures Stopped In The 55 Seizure Patients Who Discountinued Using EO.

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The US Gov. Has Launched A Couple Of Tools To Make It Easier To Find The Closest COVID-19 Vaccination Sites. One Of The Tools, An Improved Version Of VaccineFinder, Is Located On Vaccine.gov. The Other Tool Is A Zipcode Text Hotlines—GETVAX Or VACUNA (Spanish Speakers). 1-800 Hotline, In Dozens Of Languages, Is Still In The Pipeline.

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Researchers Have Discovered, In Callao Cave, Philippines, The Remains of 3 New Gigantic But Extinct Species Of Cloud Rats (GCR) Said To Be “Twice The Size Of Grey Squirrels.” Cloud Rats Are Nocturnal Animals That Exist Today In The Philippines Forests. And The Rats Live On TreeTops. Humans Are Speculated To Have Led To GCR Extinction.

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China, On April 28, 2021, Launched A Core Module For Its New Space Station. The Module, Tianhe, Would Initiate 18 Months Of Construction, ~230 Miles Above Earth, For China’s Third Station Attempt. China Will Fly 11 Missions To Complete The Station In Late 2022. These Stations Come After China Was Barred From ISS Activities, Since 2011.

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The Toaster-Sized Instrument, On The Perseverance Rover, Called MOXIE, After Warming Up For ~2 Hours, Produced 5.4 Grams Of Oxygen From The Thin 96% Carbon Dioxide Rich Martian Atmosphere. The Amount Of Oxygen Produced Could Sustain An Astronaut For ~10 Minutes. This MOXIE Will Aid The Design Of Future Generations Of MOXIE.

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US CDC Is Stating That Covid-19 Fully Vaccinated People Can Unmask At Small Outdoor Gatherings Like When Dining Outside With Friends From Multiple Households. But They Should Mask-Up In Large Indoor Gatherings Or Crowded Outdoor Events. Vaccinated And Unvaccinated Folks Are Advised To Wear Masks In Indoor Public Spaces, Like Malls.

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A Rare Bottle Of Whiskey, known As The Old Ingledew Whiskey, Originally Thought To Be From 1850, Was Carbon Dated To Be Most Likely Bottled Btw 1763-1803, Which Makes It, To The Best Of Known Knowledge, The Oldest Bottle Of Whiskey To Exist. The Whiskey Is Set To Be Auctioned For Btw US$20,000 And US$40,000 In June Of 2021.

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A Lone Male Duck, Known As A Common Pochard Was Spotted For The First Time In British Columbia. And There Is Speculation That This May Be The First Time That This Wild Bird Has Been Spotted In Canada. The Bird Is Said To Be Native To Europe And Asia And Usually Migrates South Of The 2 Continents For The Winter.

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A New Study, Based On The Computer Model Of A Fossilized T. Rex Tail, Is Indicating That T. Rex Likely Moved At A Speed Of ~3 Miles/Hour. Researchers Believe That This Speed, Comparable To The Walking Speed Of Humans, Was Adapted By T-Rex As It Would Require Minimal Energy. Another Study Did Estimate T. Rex Top Speed To ~12-18 Miles/Hour.

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The Remains Of A High-Status Roman Villa Was Uncovered In Britain, During An Excavation In Eastfield. The Layout Style Of The Structure, Which Could Be The First In The World, Has Never Been Seen In Britain And Probably In The Whole Of The Old Roman Empire. But Why Was This Villa Built At This Roman Outpost, And What Was It Use(s)?

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Researchers Successfully Made A Second Attempt At Producing Human-Monkey Chimeras, By Infusing Human Stem Cells Into 132 Embryos Of Long-Tailed Macaques. But The Embryos Were Then Terminated 19 Days After Injecting The Stem Cells. Chimeras May Be Unethical, But May Help In Drug Tests Or To Overcome Donor Organs/Tissues Shortages Globally.

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Ford’s First-Ever Electric SUV, The Ford Mustang Mach-E, Which Has Been On Sale For A Few Months, Has Now, For The First Time In The World, Experienced A Wreck, Via Highway Speed Crash. Fortunately, All Occupants Survived With Minor Injuries. The Accident May Indicate How Safe The Vehicle Is, Compared To The Fatal Tesla Model S Crash.

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NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter, On April 19, 2021, Made History By Becoming The First Aircraft To Make A Powered, Controlled Flight On Another Planet, And In This Case, Mars. The Image Of The Helicopter Was Captured By The Perseverance Rover, Parked About 211 feet Away, As Ingenuity Ascended To An Altitude Of 10 Feet, Then Hovered, Before Landing.

Researchers May Have Discovered How The Largest Known Flying Animal, Azhdarchid Pterosaurs (AP), With Neck Longer Than A Garrife, Held Its Head Up In Flight Or Carried Large Preys. They Discovered, Using CT Scan On Fossils From Morrocco, That AP Had A Unique Internal Neck Structure That Optimized Its Neck For Strength And Lightness.

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Archeologists Have Made The Most Significant Archaeological Discovery In Egypt Since The 1920s. The Find Is A 3400 Year Old City Called “The Rise Of Aten,” Which Was The Largest Administrative And Industrial Centre Along The West Bank Of Luxor During The Reign Of Amenhotep III, The 9th Pharaoh Of Ancient Egypt 18th Dynasty.

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Researchers Have Estimated That Some 2.5 Billion T. Rex Lived And Died During The 2.5 Myrs That They Existed In The Cretaceous Period (65 –98 Myrs Ago). Scientists Estimated The Number Based On Fossil Record, Density Data And Data From Climate Models. They Also Deduced, For The First Time, That T. Rex Life Span Could Reach The Late 20s.

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Scientists May Have Developed The Whitest Paint Ever, A Counterpart To Ultra Black Material. The Paint Is Said To Reflect More Than 98% Of Sunlight; Unlike The Commercially Available Paints, Which Reflect 80% To 90% Of Sunlight. This Feat Is A Major Step In Energy Saving As 1% Of Reflectance Translates To 10 W.m-2 Less Sun Heat.

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