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Doctors From Two Countries, For The First Time In History, Used Virtual Reality During The Successful Separation Of 3-Year Old Twins, Bernardo And Arthur Lima, Who Were Born With “Fused Brains”. The 27-Hour Operation, Involving More Than 100 Medics, Took Place At The Instituto Estadual do Cerebro Paulo Niemeyer In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Saudi Arabia Plans To Build The World’s Biggest Structure—2 Mirrored Buildings That Are ~488 m High And Running Parallel For 120 Km Across Coastal And Desert Terrain. The Buildings, Est. At A Trillion Dollars And Part Of The Smart City Project Called Neom, Will House ~5 Mil People. And Be Connected By Walkways And Underground Trains.

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The First Mission To Return Samples From Another Planet Will Land On Earth In 2033. The Plan Is To Send A Lander Carrying 2 Sample Recovery Helicopters. The Perseverance Rover Will Then Transport The Samples To The Lander. But If The Rover Can’t Transport The Samples, Then The 2 Helicopters Will Be Tasked With Retrieving The Samples.

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Researchers Now Understand How The Protein, TGF-beta, Controls The Process Of Division Or Death Of Hair Cells, Eventually Causing Baldness. Too Much Of TGF-beta Would Kill Hair Cells And Vice Versa. A More Precise Understanding Of How TGF-beta Activates Cell Division Could Help Activate Follicle Stem Cells And Stimulate Hair Growth.

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Researchers, For The First Time, Have Found A Unique Solar System With 3 Suns. 2 Of The Suns, With Combined Mass That’s 12X Our Sun’s Mass, Orbit Each Other In 24 Hrs, WhileThe 3rd Larger Sun (16X Our Sun’s Mass) Orbits The Other 2. More Study Is Needed To Find Out How The Stars Formed In The Solar System, HD 98800, Which Is 150 LY Away.

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Botswana (38.5%), Uganda (38.4%) And Ghana (37.2%) Were Ranked, For The 3rd Consecutive Year, As The Top Economy In The World With The Most Women Run Businesses By The Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs (MIWE). While Nigeria, Angola And Ghana Came First Globally In The Women’s Entrepreneurship Activity Rate In The 2021 Ranking.

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A New Study Indicates That Young Adults, Under 40, Are Prone To Health Risk If They Consume More Than 2 Teaspoons Of Wine Or 2.5 Tablespoons Of Beer Per Day, Which Is Alarming As ~60% Of Folks Who Consume Unsafe Amount Of Alcohol Fall Within This Age Range. But Small Alcohol Amounts Are Safe For Folks Over 40 And With No Medical Condition.

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The US FDA Will Review The First Ever Over-The-Counter Daily Birth Control Pill From HRA Pharma, A Unit Of Perrigo Company. The Request For The Prescription Drug, Sold Under The Brand Opill, To Become An Over-The-Counter Drug, Comes In The Wake Of The Us Supreme Court Overturning 1973 Roe V. Wade Case That Legalized Abortion Nationwide.

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Alena Analeigh, Age 13, Has Made History By Being The Youngest Black Person To Gain Admission Into A Medical School In The United States. Alena, At 12 Years Old, Did Gain Admission To The ASU’s Engineering Program But Decided To Study Medicine. Alena Will Attend The University Of Alabama At Birmingham Heersink School Of Medicine. Cool!

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Dr. June Huh, A South Korean And High School Dropout Turned College Professor, Was Awarded The Fields Medal, The Highest Honor In Mathematics For His Work In The Field Of Geometric Combinatorics. The Award Could Be Referred To As The “Nobel Prize In Mathematics. Huh, Age 39, Is The 9Th Field Medal Recipient From The Princeton Faculty.

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