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Pretty Cool Idea, Which Won The Top Prize In The U.K.’s TeenTech Awards, To Develop Condoms That Change Color On Contact With STDs. But Great Questions Were Indeed Raised Regarding What Happens If The Condom Comes In Contact With 2 Or More STDs? Or Whom Will The STIs Be Detected From Of The 2 Partners?

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Neanderthals May Have Been Swimmers, Diving Under The Oceans To Collect Clams. This’s Based On The Clearer Study Of 171 Shells, Used As Tools By Neanderthals ~90,000 YA, Excavated From A Cave In Italy At The End Of 1940s. The Shells, From The Smooth Clam Species (Callista Chione), Helped Denote Washed-up Clams From Live Ocean Clams.

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Researchers Are Blaming The Long-Lasting Marine Heat Wave, Called “The Blob,” For The Largest Mass Die-Offs Of Seabirds, Known As Murres, In The Pacific Northwest. About 1 Million Birds Have Been Said To Have Washed Ashore From California to Alaska In 2015 And 2016 Due To The Heat Wave Effect On The Marine Ecosystem Food Supply. Hmm!

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Researchers, Comparing The Behavioral Differences Btw Wolves And Dogs, Made A Shocking Discovery That Wolves Can Also Play Fetch When They Observed 3 Wolf Pups Retrieve A Ball For A Complete Stranger. This Is Because It’s Been Hypothesized That The Ability To Understand Human Cues, Like Those Required For Fetch, Arose In Domesticated Dogs >15,000 YA.

Scientists Have Innovated A Very Thin And Transparent Material, Of Alternating Layers Of Wafer-thin Glass Plates Sandwiching Polymer Chains, Which’s Capable Of Being, At The Same Time, A Thermal Conductor (Within The Layers) And An Insulator (Perpendicular To The Layers). Thermal Conduction Is Important In, E.G., Computers And Homes.

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Scientists May Have Developed An Eco-Friendly Living Building Materials (LBM) To Solve Some Problems, E.G., With Sourcing For Construction Materials And Building In Remote And Austere Environments. The Living Concrete, Which Involves Enlisting Bacteria, Gelatin And Sand For Its Construction, Still Needs More Work To Make It Stronger For Practical Uses.

For The Second Time In The USA, A Woman, Jennifer Gobrecht From Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, With A Transplanted Womb From a Deceased Donor Was Able To Give Birth, Via Cesarean Section, To A Healthy Child. The Womb Was Then Removed After The Child Birth. Wow! It Seems That Uterus Transplant Actually Works In Solving Infertility In Women.

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10 Years To The End Of 2019 Has Been Confirmed By Three Major Agencies: Nasa, Noaa, And The UK Met Office To Be The Warmest Decade On Record. And The Main Culprit For This Temperature Record Is The Carbon Emission from Human Activities. Scientists Are Also Indicating The Year 2019 To Be One Of The 5 Warmest Years, From 2015, On Record.

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The Oldest Material On Earth Has Been Discovered. The Material, Dust Grains, Found In A Meteorite That Fell In Australia In 1969, Is Said To Be As Much As 7.5 Billion Years Old. The Dust Grains Are Flung Into Space, When Stars That Predated Our Solar System Die, To Be Incorporated Into New Stars, Planets, Moons, And Meteorites.

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Researchers Are Indicating That One Of The Largest Freshwater Fishes, The Giant Chinese Paddlefish, Has Gone Extinct, Probably Btw Years 2005 and 2010, Due To Over-Fishing And A Major Dam Construction In 1981. This’s Worrisome That A Fish, Which Survived At Least 150Myrs, Including Dinosaur Extinction, Went Extinct Due To Human Activites.

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