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Zara Rutherford, A 19-Year-Old Belgian/ Briton, Has Made History As The Youngest Female To Fly Solo Around The World. She Accomplished The Feat With Her Shark UL Plane In 5 Months, Covering 28,000 Nautical Miles, And Stopping In 41 Countries And 5 Continents. But Travis Ludlow, At 18 Years, Is Generally The Youngest World Solo Pilot .

The Earth’s Core Is Cooling At A Faster Rate Than Previously Thought. A New Study Estimates A 1.5X Higher Bulk Thermal Conductivity At Core-Mantle Boundary Than The Conventional Value, Which Could Imply A Faster Earth Cooling Process That Could Make The Earth Unhabitable And Tectonically Inactive Millions Or Billions Of Years From Now.

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Scientists, For The First Time, Observed A Star Explode Into A Supernova. The Star, ~120 Million Light-Years Away, Was Observed, For 130 Days Before It Exploded, Using The University of Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS Telescope In Maui. Supernovas Are Usually Only Detected, But A Few Of A Different Type Stars Have Also Been Caught In An Exploding Act.

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An Israeli Company, NanoScent, Has Modified A Device To Detect COVID-19 From A Person’s Breath. The Device, Initially Built To Detect Cancers Or Other Health Predicaments Based On The Molecules In A Person’s Breath, Comprises A Breath Airbag And Sensors Equipped With Smart Algorithms, Which Can Indicate Whether Or Not A Person Has COVID-19.

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Maya Angelou, Legendary Poet And Activist, Has Become The First Black Woman Printed On The US Quarter. Maya’s Quarters Are The First, In The American Women Quarters Program, To Honor Prominent Women In US History. Other Quarters, Later In 2022 Through 2025, Will Feature Others Like Sally Ride–The First American Woman Astronaut In Space.

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Doctors, For The First Time, Successfully Transplanted A Pig’s Heart Into A Human. The Genetically Modified Pig’s Heart, In A 7 Hours Operations, Was Transferred To A 57-Year-Old David Bennett, Who Suffered A Life-Threatening Arrhythmia And Was Deemed Ineligible To Recieve A Human Heart Transplant. This Feat Could Curb Organ Donor Scarcity Crisis.

NASA Has Launched The World’s Largest And Most Powerful Telescope Ever, After More Than 30 Years Of Development/ Delays. The Tennis Court-Sized 10 Billion Dollar James Webb Space Telescope, Which Will Orbit The Sun, Is Designed To Study The Early Days Of The Universe And With Sensistivty To See Previously Undetectable Celestial Objects.

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Researchers May Have Discovered The Largest Arthropod That Ever Lived/ The Biggest Animal On Land During The Carboniferous. The Arthropod Fossil, A Monstrous Millipede Ancestor About 326 Myrs Old, Called Arthropleura, Was Discovered In 2018 In Northumberland, NE England. The Car-Sized Millipede Was ~8.5 ft (2.6 m) Long And Weighed ~110 Pounds (50Kg).

BMW Has Created The First Car, From A BMW iX, Which Changes Color. And This Color Changing Ability Is Due To The Car’s Body Panels Comprising E Ink Displays, Just Like Those Found In Screens Of E-Readers. The E Ink Display Technology Would Enable The Car Or Part Of The Vehicle To Display Different Colors And/Or Information Like Images And Text.

A Set Of Californian Twins Have Achieved An Extremely Rare Feat By Being Born In Different Years. The Male Twin, Alfredo Antonio Trujillo, Was Born On New Year’s Eve Of 2021. While The Sister, Aylin Yolanda Trujillo, Arrived 15 Mins Later, At Exactly Midnight On Jan. 1st, 2022. The Probability Of This Happening Is Said To Be 1 In 2 Million.

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