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A New Record May Have Been Set For The Longest Flight Over Water By An All-Electric Plane. The 48-Mile Flight Was Made Across The Cook Strait, New Zealand. And The Plane Was Piloted By Gary Freedman, The Founder Of The Record-Setting All-Electric Plane Company, ElectricAir, For ~40-Minutes From Omaka To Wellington Airport. Cool!

The UAE Hope Probe, Via Its Ultraviolet Spectrometer, Has Found Higher Levels Of Oxygen (Unpredicted Variations Of 50% Or More In The Brightness) In Mars Atmosphere Than The Expected Relative Uniform Oxygen Levels Across Mars. The Discovery Is Said To Have Implications For Existing Martian Atmospheric Models And The Atmosphere Behavior.

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Michelle Wu, An Asian American Woman, Has Made History As The First Woman, And The First Person Of Color To Be Elected As The Mayor Of Boston, Massachusetts. Wu’s Election Broke Boston’s 200-Year Pattern Of Only Electing White Men For The Position. Wu Was Also The First Asian American Woman Elected, In 2013, As Boston’s City Councilman.

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Self-Driving Boats (Roboats) Are Being Tested In The Canals Of Amsterdam. The Same Advanced Technology Applied To Self Driving Cars Was Used In Developing The Roboats. The Roboats, Expected To Travel 6-7 Km/ Hour, Will Convey People, Goods, And Trash. The Watercrafts Will Be Used To Alleviate Road Congestions By Making Use Of Under-Utilised Canals.

Researchers, Based On China’s Chang’e 5 Spacecraft Lunar Samples, Have Determined That The Moon Was Last Volcanically Active With Lava Flow As Recent As 2 Byrs Ago. This Find, Which Has Many Implications, Contradicts Earlier Opinion That The Moon Died Early Due To Its Small Size. And It Also Raises Question As To The Cause Of The Lava.

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WHO Has Approved The World’s First Malaria Vaccine. The RTS,S Vaccine, From GlaxoSmithKline, Is Also The First Ever Approved For Use Against A Parasitic Disease In Humans. The Vaccine Was Approved Based On Its Positive Results In Ghana, Kenya, And Malawi, As It Was Found To Reduce Malaria Cases By 40% And Hospitalizations By Nearly A Third.

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NASA, Using The Chandra X-Ray Telescope, May Have Discovered The First Exoplanet Outside Of Our Galaxy. The New Saturn-Sized Exoplanet Is Said To Be 28 Million Light-Years From Earth In The Messier 51 Galaxy. All Of The ~5000 Exoplanets Discovered Were Within The Milky Way. And Most Of Them Are Less Than 3,000 Light-Years From Earth.

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Barbados Will Become A Republic, On Nov. 30th, 2021 (55 Years Since Independence) After Swearing-In Its First Elected President, Sandra Mason. The Former Governor-General Will Replace Britain’s Queen Elizabeth As Head Of State (HOS). Several Countries, After Independence, Dropped The Queen As HOS, But Some Like Australia And Canada Didn’t.

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Researchers Have Pinpointed The Precise Date The Vikings First Arrived The Americas. They Estimated The Date These First Europeans Arrived To Be 1021–1,000 Years Ago. The Estimate Was Done Via Carbon Dating Of Woods From The Only Confirmed Norse Archeological Site In The Americas, Called L’Anse Aux Meadows, In Newfoundland, Canada.

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Researchers Found, In A 16 Myr Old Dominican Amber, A Third Known Fossil Of A Tardigrade. The Fossil, Called Paradoryphoribius Chronocaribbeus, A New Species & Relative Of The Living Tardigrades Isohypsibioidea Species, Is The First From The Cenozoic Era (Began ~66 Mya). A Tardigrade Fossil Find Is Said To Be A Once In A Generation Event.

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