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There Is A Global Liveability Index Of 140 Cities Worldwide, Which Ranks The Most Livable Cities Based On Parameters Like Stability, Culture And Environment, Education And Infrastructure, And Health Care. And This Year, 2019, Vienna Is Top-Ranked, With Melbourne Sydney, Osaka, and Calgary, In This Order, Subsequently Making The Top 5.

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Scientists May Have Discovered A Method That Would Enable The Tooth Enamel To Be Repaired. The Method, The Ability To Produce Tiny Clusters Of Calcium Phosphate, Would Allow The Enamel To Be Reproduced And Grown Back. And The Cool Part Is That The Materials Needed For This Are Cheap And Can Be Prepared On Large Scales.

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Scientists Have Discovered A Meteorite Containing A New Mineral That Has Never Being Found In Nature. The Meteorite Was Found By The Road Side In Australia. The New Mineral, Called Edscottite, Is Said To Come From A Rock Formed In The Core Of Another Planet, Which Was Destroyed In An Ancient Collision.

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With Dangerous Undetected Asteroids, Like “2019 Ok,” Coming Close To Earth, It’s A Breath Of Relief That NASA Continues To Award Funds, Like $19M, To Observatories Like The Iconic Arecibo Observatory, In Puerto Rico, To Watch Out For Near-Earth Objects, Especially Asteroids Within 5 Million Miles (8 million km) Of Earth’s Orbit.

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BMW Is Painting A 2020 X6 Vantablack, Making It The First Blackest Black Car. The Color Is Said To Erase all The Car’s Curves. Vantablack, Black Vertically Aligned Nano Tube Array, The Blackest Black Matrix Made From Microscopic Bit Of Carbon, Is Great For Coating Space-Borne Materials Because It Easily Absorbs Light And Resist Cold Temperature.

Researchers At The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Have Discovered A New Type Of Bloodsucking Leech, Since 1975 In North America, Dubbed “Macrobdella Mimicus,” In Charles County, 50 Miles Outside Washington, D.C. The Olive-Green Leech Is Said To Have Three Jaws With 56 to 59 Teeth In Each. Like Leech Is Not Gross Enough!

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An Extensive Sheet Of Pumice, A Very Light And Porous Volcanic Rock, From An Underwater Volcano, Near Tonga, Is Floating Towards Australia. The Pumice Sheet, About The Size Of Washington, D.C. (58 Square Miles), Could Act As A Medium For Carrying Marine Organisms To Replenish Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Cool!

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Antonio De La Rosa, A 42-Year-Old Endurance Athlete From Spain, Crossed The Pacific Ocean From San Francisco to Hawaii In 76 Days. This Makes Him The First Person To Cross The Pacific Ocean As A Stand-Up Paddleboarder. He Is Said To Have Done It To Raise Awareness About Protecting The Ocean. Wow, Some Feat!

The Rate At Which The Indonesia Capital City, Jarkatar, Is Sinking Into the Sea, As Mentioned Here, Is Quite Severe That The Government Now Wants To Move The Capital To The Island Of Borneo, A Project That Is Expected To Cost About $33bn. Construction Is Expected To Begin In 2020, On A 40,000 Hectares Plot, If Parliament Approves.

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Scientists Have Discovered A Second Planet, Beta Pictoris C, Which Is Nearly 10X The Mass Of Our Largest Planet, Jupiter. The Planet, In The Pictor Constellation, Is About The Distance To The Asteroid Belt From Its 23 Mya Young Sun, Beta Pictoris, Which Is 63.4 LY From Us. The Planet’s Year Is Roughly 1,200 Earth Days.

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