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Ganymede, The Largest Moon In Our Solar System, Larger Than Mercury And Pluto, Will Experience Its First Closest Encounter In 20 Years, Since Galileo Spacecraft Approached It At ~502 Miles In May 2000. NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Will, On 06/07/2021, Approach Ganymede At ~645 Miles To Enable Researchers Better Understand Its Composition.

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The US FDA Has Approved An Anti-Diabetic Drug, Semaglutide, For Treating Obesity. The Drug, Which Causes >15% Reduction In Body Weight, Could Be The Most Effective For Treating Obesity Than Other Existing Medications That Have ~5% To 12% Reduction. But Semaglutide May Be Difficult For Many To Get Due To, E.g., Cost And Insurance Coverage.

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China Passed The One Child Birth Limit In 1979 And Enforced It Since 1980 To Curtail Population Growth. The Country Then Increased, In 2015, The Limit To 2 Children Per Family As A Result Of Economic Issues Due To The Aging Population. Now, China Wants To Allow Couples To Have 3 Children Due To Dwindling Number Of Working-Age People.

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Researchers Successfully Tested A New Cancer And Bacterial Killing Drug, SeNBD, By Embedding It, Like A Trojan Horse, Into Food Compounds For Cancerous Cells To Ingest. And SeNBD Only Activates In Visible Light, Enabling Doctors Decide When To Precisely Activate It, To Reduce The Chance Of Healthy Tissue Destruction And Other Side Effects.

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3 Climbers Have Recently Set Records For Climbing Mount Everest. Hong Kong‘s Tsang Yin Hung, 45, Has Set The Fastest Woman Record For Climbing Everest, Completing It From Base Camp In 25 Hours And 50 Minutes. Arthur Muir, 75, Became The Oldest American, While China’s Zhang Hong, 46, Became The First Blind Man From Asia To Summit Everest.

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South Korea Has Achieved The World’s Highest Attainable Food Waste Recycling Rate Of 95%. By Making It Mandatory, By Law, To Separate One’s Food Waste From Trash, Then Pay To Have It Collected And Recycled Into Biofuel, Compost Or Chicken Food, Instead Of It Ending Up In Landfills, Contributing To Global Warming Via Methane Production.

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Researchers Surprisingly Discovered A New Frog Species, In 2016, Living In The Lowland Rainforests Of New Guinea, In Very Hot, Swampy Areas With Crocodiles. The Species, Named Chocolate Frog (Litoria Mira) For Its Chocolate Coloring, Is Said To Be Similar But Genetically Distinct From Austalia’s Common Green Tree Frogs (Litoria Caerulea).

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Kashe Quest, A 2-Year Old Kid From LA With A 146 IQ, Has Become The Youngest USA Mensa Member. Muhammad Haryz Nadzim, Age 3, With A 142 IQ, Became The Youngest UK Mensa Member In 2020. Applicants Must Score At Or Above The 98th Percentile On A Standard Intelligence Test To Join Mensa, The Largest International High IQ Society. Impressive Kids!

Tardigrades, Aka Water Bears Or Moss Piglets, Are One Of Nature’s Toughest/Indestructible Critters And Can Survive Being 1) Frozen For ~30 Years, 2) Inside A Volcano, 3) In Space, And 4) About A Mile Underground In The Antarctic Lake. However, Researchers Have Discovered That Tardigrades Die When Shot Out Of A Gun At Speeds Of More Than 2000 MPH.…

Researchers May Have Proven An Alternative Method Of Breathing Oxygen Via The Anus/Bottom. They Discovered That Severe Oxygen-Deprived Animals, Like In Mice And Pigs, Could Absorb Oxygen From Oxygen-Rich Liquid Squirted Into Their Rectums. This Alternative Would Be Most Welcome If It’s Practical In Patients With Severe Lungs Disease.

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