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Scientific Projection Is Indicating The Lagos, Nigeria, A Low Lying City On The Atlantic Coast And Home To More Than 24 Million People, May Become Unliveable At The End Of This Century Because Of Sea-Level Rise Due To Climate Change. And This Is Worsened By The Poor Drainage And Uncontrolled Urban Growth That Plague The City.

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Scientists Built A Tiny Roach-Like Robot That Can Withstand A Million Times Its Weight And Move At Speeds 20 Body Lengths/Second. The Robot Is Built With Polyvinylidene Difluoride Material That Expands And Contracts With Small AC Application, Giving The Robot A Forward “Leapfrogging” Motion. The Robot Can Be Used To Inspect Tight Spaces.

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Walmart, The Largest US Private Employer, To Curb Rising Student Loan Debt, Wants To Pay 100% Of College Tuition And Book Costs For Its Associates. The Retail Giant Plans To Offer This Educational Assistance Program Effective Aug. 16, 2021, With The Termination Of The $1/Day Fee For Participating In Its Live Better U Education Program.

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The World’s Largest Star Sapphire Cluster, Named “Serendipity Sapphire,” Was Discovered In Gemstone-Rich Ratnapura Area Of Sri Lanka. Serendipity Sapphire Was Found In A Backyard, By Accident, During A Well Dig. The Pale Blue Coloured Gemstone, Weighing 510 kg Or 2.5 Million Carats, Is Estimated To Be Worth $100 Million In Intl. Market.

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InSight, Based On Mars Quake Data, Has Provided The Best Glimpse Of Mars Interior, Indicating The Core Comprises Liquid Nickel-Iron, And Is Larger Than Previously Thought, 2,230–2320 Miles Wide, And Probably Less Dense. While The Lithosphere, With Thicker Crust, Is Similar But ~ 56 Miles Thicker Than Earth’s, And Lacks Tectonic Plates.

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Jetpack Aviation’s “The Speeder,” The World’s First Flying Motorcycle, Has Passed A Test Flight. The Flying Machine, Which Has 4 Turbojet Engines That Runs On Kerosine Or Desiel Fuel, Is Described As Star Wars Speeders Crossed With A Jet Ski And A Helicopter. The Speeder, Which Costs $380,000, Can Reach Speeds Of 300miles/hour, And Height Of 15,000 Ft.

New Evidence Is Indicating That Neanderthals, Like Home Sapiens, Were Capable Of Artistic Or Symbolic Expression. Based On The Discovery, In The Famous Unicorn Cave In the Harz Mountains Of Central Germany, Of One Of The Oldest Art Works In The World—A Toe Bone Of A Prehistoric Deer Carved With Lines By Neanderthals 51,000 Years Ago.

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The Tastry’s App, BottleBird, Uses AI, Wine Profile Data, And Consumer’s “Palate Survey” For Personal Taste And Smell Preferences To Personalize Wine Recommendations For Consumers, And Improve Sales For Wine Traders. These Parameters Make BottleBird Different From Apps Like Vivino, Which Rely On Historical Purchase And Rating Data.

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Research Is Indicating That 7% Of The Human DNA Is Unrelated To Our Ancient Ancestors And, Therefore, Unique To Modern Humans. This Find Indicates How Closely Related Modern Humans Are To, E.g., Neanderthals. The Study Was Conducted Using DNAs From 279 Humans Located Worldwide And From Fossilized Remains Of Neanderthals and Denisovans.

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Oliver Daemen, The Son Of Somerset Capital Partners CEO Joes Daemeno, Will Be The Youngest Person, At Age 18, To Fly to Space. He Will Join 82-Year-Old Wally Funk In The Jeff Bezos First Human Flight To Space By His Company. Oliver, A Physics Student, Replaces The Anonymous Bidder Who Could Not Fly Due To Scheduling Conflict.

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Researchers, Based On The Relationship Between Inflammatory Markers And Various Age-Related Conditions, Have Developed A New Tool Called iAge, Which Analyzes Blood-Borne Markers Of Chronic Inflammation. To Determine One’s Immunological Age, Which Could Hint At When/Whether A Person Will Become Frail Or Develop Heart Disease Later In Life.

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Lake Mead, The Largest Reservoir In The US, Due To Extreme Drought, Is Said To Have Dipped To Its Lowest Level Ever, ~1,071.56ft Above Sea Level, On The 10th Of June, 2021. The Lake, Created By The Hoover Dam, Is Said To Be A Source Of Major Water Supply For More Than 20 Million People, Including Those Living In Los Vegas And Los Angeles.

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Dubai Has Set A New Record For Building The World’s Deepest Swimming Pool For Diving. The Pool, Called “Deep Dive Dubai,” Designed To Resemble A Sunken City, Is Nearly 6 Olympic-Sized Swimming Pools, And Over 196 Feet Deep, Surpassing The Current Depth Of The Record Holder, Deepspot In Poland, By Nearly 50 Feet.

Sir Richard Branson, Via His VSS Unity Spaceplane, Has Become The First In The Billionaire’s Space Race, Which Includes Elon Musk And Jeff Bezos, To Reach The Edge Of Space. Sir Branson’s Spaceplane Was Launched From A Mothership At An Altitude Of ~ 9.4 Miles (15km) Carrying The Crew Into Sub-Orbital Space-- At Least 55 Miles (88km) Above The Earth.

Ashleigh Barty Has Become The First Indigenous Australian, In 41 Years, To Win The Wimbledon Women’s Singles Title. Barty Is The Second Australian To Win It After Her Mentor, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Won It In 1971 And 1980. Barty, A Junior Wimbledon Champion In 2011, Also Successfully Played Professional Cricket For The Brisbane Heat.

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Zaila Avant-garde, A 14-Year-Old Girl From New Orleans, Louisiana, Is The First African-American To Win The National Spelling Bee Competition. The 2021 93rd Competition Began With 209 Spellers, Ranging In Age From 9 To 15, From The US, The Bahamas, Canada, Ghana, And Japan. Jody-Anne Maxwell, From Jamaica, Was The Only Black To Win It In 1998.

Rani, The 23-Month-Old Bhutti Dwarf Cow In Bangladesh, Which Measures 51cm (20in) High, And Weighs 28kg (62Ib), May Be On Track To Be Crowned The World’s Smallest Cow, If Its Dimension Beats Those Of The Current Title Holder, Manikyam, In Neighbouring India, With Measurement Of 61.1cm High. Rani, By The Way, Has Become A Sensation In Bangladesh.

The World’s Tallest Sandcastle, Standing At 21.16m, Was Built In The Denmark Town Of Blokhus. The Castle Was Built With 4,860 Tonnes Of Sand, And With Glue And Clay Reinforcement. The Sandcastle, Which Is 3.5 m Higher Than The Previous 17.66 m Record Set In Germany In 2019, Will Stand In Place Until Winter, And Is Open To All Visitors.

Scientists Have Revived Tiny Organisms That Were Frozen During The Late Pleistocene Epoch. The Creatures, Known As Bdelloid Rotifers Or Wheel Animals, And Said To Have Existed For About 50 Million Years, Were Frozen In The Arctic For 24,000 Years. The Organisms, Once Thawed, Began Reproducing Asexually, Creating Clones That Were Their Genetic Duplicates.

Researchers Have Discovered A New Beetle Species From A Dinosaur’s Fossilized Feces. The 230-Myr-Old Tiny Beetles, Named Triamyxa Coprolithica, Is The First Insect Described From Fossilized Feces, Which Was, According To Researchers, Likely Excreted By Silesaurus Opolensis, A ~2 m-Long Small Dinosaur That Lived In Poland ~230 Myrs Ago.

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