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50 Years After The US First Planted Its Flag On The Moon, During the Manned Apollo 11 Mission In 1969, China Is Now The 2nd Country To Plant Its Flag During The Chang’e-5 Probe Mission. However, This Is Not China’s First Lunar Mission As They Previously Had 2. The Unique Chinese Flag Is 2m Wide And 90cm Tall And Weighs ~1Kg.

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Google Parent Company Lab, Deep Mind, Has Built A Computer, Called Alpha Fold, Which Can Rapidly (In Hours Or Minutes As Against Months/Decades) Predict The 3-D Shape Of A Protein, As The Shape Defines What A Protein Can Do. This Breakthrough Could Accelerate The Development Of New Medicines And The Understanding Of The Body And Diseases.

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This Baby, In Another Wonder Of Science, Is Said To Be 18 Months Younger Than Her Mum, Who Is Now 29 Years Old. The Technically 27-Year-Old Baby Resulted From An Anonymously Donated Embryo Frozen In October 1992. The Baby, Named Molly Everette Gibson, Is Now said To Be The Longest Frozen Embryo That Resulted In A Live Birth. Wow!!

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Scientists Have Figured Out That ~30-40 Minutes Per Day Of “Moderate To Vigorous Intensity Physical Activity Can Offset The Negative Health Impact Of 10 Hours Of Daily Sitting. This Result Is Based On The Statistical Analysis Of Results From 9 Previous Studies Involving 44,370 People, From Different Countries, Wearing Fitness Tracker.

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Researchers Using The Ultrasensitive Borexino Detector From The World’s Largest Underground Lab In Italy, For The First Time, Detected Neutrinos With Tell-Tale Energy Of The Main Reaction Used To Fuse Hydrogen To Helium, CNO Fusion, In The Sun And Stars. This Find Is A Step Closer To Understanding The Sun’s Core And Heavy Stars Formation.

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Researchers, By Pinpointing The Location And Velocity Of ~99 Specific Points On The Most Accurate Map Of The Milky Way Yet, Are Indicating That The Earth Is ~25,800 LY From A Supermassive Black Hole Called Sagittarius A, Located At The Center Of Our Galaxy. This Implies The Earth Is 2,000 LY Closer To The Blackhole Than Originally Thought.

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The Catholic Pope, On 11/28/2020, Has Appointed Archbishop Wilton Gregory, Age 72, As The First Black Cardinal In The Catholic Church. Wilton Has Served As The Archbishop Of Washington, DC Since May 2019. And During The Same Event, Brunei And Rwanda Got Their First-Ever Cardinals, Cornelius Sim, And Antoine Kambanda, Respectively.

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With The Rising Cases Of Coronavirus, Some States Have Created A Coronavirus Notification App That Can Send Alerts, Via Bluetooth, When A Person Is Close To Someone Infected. Now, Unless One Is Masked-Up, The App Only Informs You After Exposure. But, At Least, You Now Know To Take Precautions To Avoid Infecting Others. Ingenious!

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The Recently Opened Deepspot Pool, At 45m Deep, Is Deeper Than The Current Guiness World Record Holder For Deepest Pool, The Y-40 Diving Pool (42m Deep) In Italy. The Deepspot Pool In Poland, Which Caters To Scuba Divers And Freedivers, Could Fill More Than 24 Olympic Sized Swimming Pools. The Pool Also Has A Transparent Viewing Tunnel For Non-Divers.

Many Speculations Are Surrounding The Btw 10 -12 Feet Mysterious Metallic Monolith Found During A Routine Helicopter Flight Assisting The Wildlife Dept. The Monolith, Spotted Deep In The Desert In Rural Utah, Has, Of Course, Being Speculated To Be Alien, Or Government Or NASA Secret Experiment. But Some Think It Was Placed There By An Artist.

AstraZeneca And The University Of Oxford Have Stated, In A Relatively Unclear Report, That Their COVID-19 Vaccine Is, On Average, 70% Effective Against Covid-19, Less Than Those From Moderna, And Pfizer And BioNTech. But AstraZeneca Vaccine, Compared To Others, Seem Easiest To Mass Produce And Store, And It’s Also The Cheapest, At $3 To $4 Per Dose.

The Trail Blazing Continues For President-Elect Joe Biden. He Has Appointed The First Woman, Janet Yellen, To Head The Treasury Department. Nominated The First Latino And Immigrant, Alejandro Mayorkas, To Head The Homeland Security Dept., And Also Tapped Avril Haines, Which Could Make Her The First Female Director Of National Intelligence.

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The Chinese New Submersible, Named Fendouzhe/Striver, Is The Deepest Diving Manned Submersible In The World, After Descending ~10,909 Metres To The Bottom Of The Challenger Deep Of The Marina Trench, Just Shy Of The 10,927 Metres World Record Set By The American Explorer In 2019. Fendouzhe Also Beamed Up The World’s First Live Video From Challenger Deep.

Scientists, In A First Of Its Kind, May Have Discovered A Way To Reverse Aging In Folks Over 64 Years By Using Oxygen Therapy (Breathing Pure Oxygen In Pressurized Chamber) To Target Cells And DNA Linked To Aging. The 3 Months Experiment Period Indicates That Folks Gained 25 Years Younger At The Cellular Biological Level. Hmm!

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Natural Diamond Form From Carbon, ~150 km Deep In The Earth, Under High Temperature And Pressure. And They Take Billion Of Years To Form. And Yes, Synthetic Diamond Have Been Created In Labs Since The 1940s. But Researchers In Australia, In What May Be A First, Were Able To Create Diamond In Minutes Under Room Temperature. Cool!

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The US FDA Has Approved The First Coronavirus Prescription Home Test Kit That Gives Result In A Little As 30 Minutes. The Kit, Lucira, Developed By Lucira Health, Is Said To Be Suitable For Folks Who Are At Least 14 Years Of Age. But Health Care Providers Must Collect Their Test Samples To Report Results To Health Authorities.

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Lego Has Set A New Record By Creating The Largest Lego Structure Comprising 9,036 Pieces Of Lego Bricks. The Structure, A Version Of The Colosseum, Measures 10.5 Inches High By 20.5 Inches Wide And Is 23.5 Inches Deep. The Colosseum Has About 1,500 More Pieces Than The Previous Record-Holder– The 7,541-Piece Star Wars Millennium Falcon.

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SpaceX Crew Dragon, In A Fully Operational Mission, Made History By Being The First Privately Owned Spacecraft, Built By SpaceX, To Deliver, On Monday, November 16th, 2020, A 4-Person Crew For A 6 Months Long Stay At The International Space Station (ISS). SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Completed It First Test Mission To ISS In March Of 2019.

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Mordena Just Announced That Their Vaccine, mRNA-1273, Is Effective Against COVID-19 As It Was Able To Reduce The Risk Of The Virus Infection By 94.5%. This News Comes A week After Pfizer And BioNTech Announced The Result From Their Study. Regardless, Experts Urge More Study To Better Understand The Efficacy Of The Vaccines.

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Yes, We Have Had 14 Black Astronauts Visit The International Space Station (ISS) During Its Construction. But Their Stay Was For A Short While. This Time, NASA, Via Sending Victor J. Glover–A Navy Commander And Test Pilot To ISS For A Longer, 6 Months, Stay, Will Make Him The First Black Astronaut To Stay This Long.

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