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Pretty Cool Australian First In Eyewear Technology App, The Lens Scanner, Which Can Enable Anyone Retrieve Their Own Prescription Lens Online By Performing Their Own Eye Test With The Same Accuracy As A Lensmeter, Commonly Found At The Optician. The Prescription Can Then Be Applied To Any Glass That One Chooses To Purchase Online.

More Innovations For Moon/Mars Travel And Colonization. NASA Plans To Convert Carbon Dioxide Into Oxygen Using A Tool Made Of Gold. The Tool, Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE), Will Be Attached To Perseverance Rover For Moon Launch In July 2020. Moxie Will Help Create Liquid Oxygen Propellant For Return Flights.

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There Are Dogs Specially Trained To Identify Diseases Like Cancer, Malaria And Parkinson’s By Their Scents. And In This Regard, A Charity, In Partnership With Other Health Establishments In The UK, Wants To Train Dogs To Catch Coronavirus Odour So That The Virus Can Be Detected At Busy Areas Like Airports. Cool!

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The USA FDA Has Approved A Twice Daily Pill For People With Aggressive Breast Cancer, Also Known As HER2-Positive Breast Cancer, Which Spreads In The Body Including The Brain And Is Tough To Treat. Though A Welcome News For ~50,000 People Diagnosed With This Cancer, It Comes With A Hefty Price Tag Of $18,500/Month Without Insurance.

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There Seem To Be A Correlation Between Obesity And COVID-19 Related Higher Risk Of Hospitalization And Critical Illness In Folks Younger Than 60 Years And With BMI Between 30 And 34. And This May Be Nudging Rates Of Severe Illness And Death In The USA, Higher Than In South Korea, China, and Italy Where Obesity Rates Are Lower.

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A Potentially Habitable Planet, 300 LY From Earth, May Have Been Discovered By Kepler Telescope Btw 2009 And 2018. The Planet, Kepler-1649c, Is Said To Be 1.06X Larger Than Earth, And Within A Habitable Zone Of Its Dwarf Sun, Receiving 75% The Sunlight That Earth Gets From The Sun. Kepler-1649c Orbits Its Star Every 19.5 Earth Days.

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The Unpublished Research By Belgian-Dutch Researchers Support The Claim That Coronavirus Could Spread Further Than The 6 Feet Buffer Recommended By Health Officials. The Unpublished Result Is Important To The Many Folks Who Now Run And/Or Cycle, As Respiratory Droplets Potentially Containing Coronavirus May Spread As They Pass Each Other.

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The Biggest And Brightest Supernova, Ever Observed, SN2016aps (3.6–4.6B Ly away), Resulted From The Extremely Powerful Explosion Of A Dying Massive Star (50-100 Times The Sun’s Mass). Discovered In 2016 Data By Scientists At The Center For Astrophysics & Announced In 2020, It Radiated More Than 5x The Explosion Energy Of A Typical Supernova.

Wow, A Female Zebra And A Male Donkey Mated, In Kenya, To Give Birth To A Hybrid, Which Looks Like A Zebra And A Donkey. The Zebra-Donkey Hybrid Is Been Called A Zonkey. Both The Mother And Zonkey Are Thriving Okay In Their New Habitat At The Chyulu Hills National Park in Kenya.

The USA Had The Most Confirmed COVID-19 Cases. And Now, As On The 4/11/2020, The Country Has The Most Confirmed COVID-19 Deaths In The World, After Italy, With At least 20,000 Fatalities, Which Some Experts Say Is An Underestimated Count. We Can Beat This, People, Just Follow The Social Distancing Guidelines And Good Hygiene Practices.

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