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MIT Engineers May Have Discovered A New Method Of Generating Electricity. The Method Works Via The Interaction Of Carbon With Its Surrounding Fluid, An Organic Solvent, Which Draws Electrons Out Of Carbon Particles, Thereby Generating Electricity. The Electricity Is Said To Be Sufficient For Chemical Reactions Or To Power Nanoscale Robots.

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France Is Sending A Second Statue Of Liberty To The US. The Statue, Named “Little Sister,” Though Symbolic As The Original, Is 1/16 The Original’s Size. Little Sister, First Made In 2009, Will Be Temporarily Erected, From July 1st To 5th, 2021, On Ellis Island, Before Going To Its Final Destination–The French Ambassador’s Residence.

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Dareen Barbar, Who Lives In Dubai, Has Broken The Guinness World Records For The Longest Samson’s Chair/Static Wall Sit For Female With Above Knee Amputation Category (LA1), During The Launch Of The Guinness World Records Impairment Records Initiative. The Fitness And Lifestyle Coach Maintained The Difficult Position For 2 Mins 8.24 Secs. Congrats!

A Questionable Analysis, Based On 7 Cancer Studies Published Between 1966 And 2020, Seem To Indicate That Eating 2 Medium-Sized Mushrooms Daily Could Reduce The Risk Of Cancer By 45%. But Researchers Don’t Yet Know The Working Mechanism, The Specific Cancers Impacted, And If Other Factors, Like Diet And Physical Activities, Are Involved.

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Researchers May Have Discovered, In 2007, A New Dinosaur Species, Said To Be The Largest Dinosaur Ever Found In Australia. The Dinosaur, Called Australotitan Cooperensis Or “The Southern Titan,” Is 6.5m Tall And As Long As A basketball Court. Australotitan, Closely Related To 3 Sauropod Species, Is One Of The World’s 15 Largest Dinosaurs.

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The US FDA, Pending The Clinical Benefit Study, Has Conditionally Approved The First New Alzheimer’s Disease Drug, Since A Drug Was Last Approved In Almost 20 Years, In 2003. The Novel Experimental Drug, Known As Aducanumab Or Aduhelm, Is Intended For Patients With Earliest Stage Of Dementia, And To Slow Alzheimer’s Disease Progression.

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Recall Magawa, The Tanzanian-Born African Giant Pouched Rat Trained To Detect Landmine In Cambodia? Well, Magawa Is Retiring Having Reached The Retirement Age. Magawa Has Been Working For 5 Years In Cambodia And Has Since Cleared 2.4 Million Square Feet Of Land, And In The Process Found 71 Land Mines And 38 Items Of Unexploded Ordnance.

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Ganymede, The Largest Moon In Our Solar System, Larger Than Mercury And Pluto, Will Experience Its First Closest Encounter In 20 Years, Since Galileo Spacecraft Approached It At ~502 Miles In May 2000. NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Will, On 06/07/2021, Approach Ganymede At ~645 Miles To Enable Researchers Better Understand Its Composition.

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The US FDA Has Approved An Anti-Diabetic Drug, Semaglutide, For Treating Obesity. The Drug, Which Causes >15% Reduction In Body Weight, Could Be The Most Effective For Treating Obesity Than Other Existing Medications That Have ~5% To 12% Reduction. But Semaglutide May Be Difficult For Many To Get Due To, E.g., Cost And Insurance Coverage.

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China Passed The One Child Birth Limit In 1979 And Enforced It Since 1980 To Curtail Population Growth. The Country Then Increased, In 2015, The Limit To 2 Children Per Family As A Result Of Economic Issues Due To The Aging Population. Now, China Wants To Allow Couples To Have 3 Children Due To Dwindling Number Of Working-Age People.

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Researchers Successfully Tested A New Cancer And Bacterial Killing Drug, SeNBD, By Embedding It, Like A Trojan Horse, Into Food Compounds For Cancerous Cells To Ingest. And SeNBD Only Activates In Visible Light, Enabling Doctors Decide When To Precisely Activate It, To Reduce The Chance Of Healthy Tissue Destruction And Other Side Effects.

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3 Climbers Have Recently Set Records For Climbing Mount Everest. Hong Kong’s Tsang Yin Hung, 45, Has Set The Fastest Woman Record For Climbing Everest, Completing It From Base Camp In 25 Hours And 50 Minutes. Arthur Muir, 75, Became The Oldest American, While China’s Zhang Hong, 46, Became The First Blind Man From Asia To Summit Everest.

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South Korea Has Achieved The World’s Highest Attainable Food Waste Recycling Rate Of 95%. By Making It Mandatory, By Law, To Separate One’s Food Waste From Trash, Then Pay To Have It Collected And Recycled Into Biofuel, Compost Or Chicken Food, Instead Of It Ending Up In Landfills, Contributing To Global Warming Via Methane Production.

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Researchers Surprisingly Discovered A New Frog Species, In 2016, Living In The Lowland Rainforests Of New Guinea, In Very Hot, Swampy Areas With Crocodiles. The Species, Named Chocolate Frog (Litoria Mira) For Its Chocolate Coloring, Is Said To Be Similar But Genetically Distinct From Austalia’s Common Green Tree Frogs (Litoria Caerulea).

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Kashe Quest, A 2-Year Old Kid With A 146 IQ, Has Become The Youngest USA Mensa Member. Muhammad Haryz Nadzim, Age 3, With A 142 IQ, Became The Youngest UK Mensa Member In 2020. Applicants Must Score At Or Above The 98th Percentile On A Standard Intelligence Test To Join Mensa, The Largest International High IQ Society. Impressive Kids!

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Tardigrades, Aka Water Bears Or Moss Piglets, Are One Of Nature’s Toughest/Indestructible Critters And Can Survive Being Frozen For ~30 Years, Inside A Volcano, In Space, And About A Mile Underground In The Antarctic Lake. However, Researchers Have Discovered That Tardigrades Die When Shot Out Of A Gun At Speeds Of More Than 2000 MPH.

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Researchers May Have Proven An Alternative Method Of Breathing Oxygen Via The Anus/Bottom. They Discovered That Severe Oxygen-Deprived Animals, Like In Mice And Pigs, Could Absorb Oxygen From Oxygen-Rich Liquid Squirted Into Their Rectums. This Alternative Would Be Most Welcome If It’s Practical In Patients With Severe Lungs Disease.

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A Blind Man Had His Eyesight Partially Restored, In A First Of Such Successful Treatment In Human Using Optogenetic Therapy And Engineered Goggles. The 58-Year-Old Man, For 40 Years, Was Afflicted With A Neurodegenerative Eye Disease, Retinitis Pigmentosa, Which Changes How The Retina Responds To Light, Which Could Lead To Total Blindness.

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The Introduction Of 26 Adult Tasmanian Devils, In Late 2020, Into The 400-Hectare Sanctuary, North Of Sydney, Have Resulted In The Birth Of Tasmanian Devils 3000 Years After They Disappeared From Australia, Thought To Have Been Wiped-Out By Wild Dogs. This Is Hope For Rewilding Australia, Which Has The World’s Worst Mammal Extinction Rate.

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Phil Mickelson Has Made History As The Oldest Golfer To Win A Golf Major. He Was 50 Years, 11 Months, 8 Days When He Won The 2021 PGA Championship On 5/23/2021. This Win Implies A Total Of 29 Golfers Aged 40 And Above Have Won The Golf Major A Sum Total Of 39 Times. Mickelson Has 6 Major Golf Championships, Winning All But The US Open.

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