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The Future Uses Of Superconductors Is Left To The Imagination As Scientists Have Discovered The First Material That Can Superconduct Electricity At Room Temperature To 15° C, But Under A Very High Pressure, About 2.6 Million Times That Of Earth’s Atmosphere. Current Superconducts Must Be Cooled, Even To Very Low Temperature, To Function.

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Though The Clinical Trial Is Not Complete, There Seem To Be Light At The End Of The Tunnel As Hundreds In A City In Eastern China Are Queuing To Get A Coronavirus Vaccine, Which Has Been Rolled Out To The Public With The Backing Of The Chinese Government. Anyone Can Get The Vaccine If One Pays The $60 (£45) Injection Fee. Fingers Crossed.

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Two New Studies Seem To Indicate A Relationship Between The Degree Of Vulnerability To COVID-19 And Blood Types. According To The Study, People With Blood Type O Seem Less Vulnerable Relative To Those With Blood Types A, B, Or AB. And Also, People With Blood Types A Or AB Seem To Show The Greatest COVID-19 Disease Severity. Hmm!

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It Takes ~6 Hours And 4 Orbits Around The Earth For A Soyuz Spacecraft To Rendevous With The International Space Station. But The Soyuz MS-17, Carrying NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins And Russian Cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov And Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, Did It In ~3 Hours With Only 2 Orbits, After A Record-Breaking Speed, Arriving On 10/14/2020 At 4:48 a.m. EDT.

Jackson Oswalt, Currently A 13-Year-Old Kid Based In Memphis, Tennessee, Has Just Become The Youngest Person, At Age 12, According To The Guinness World Records, To Achieve Nuclear Fusion. He Did This By Using Electricity To Accelerate And Combine Two Atoms Of Deuterium, Which Are Stable Isotopes Of Hydrogen, Into A Helium Atom.

Shark Allies Are Worried That ~500,000 Sharks Could Be Killed For Their Liver Extracted Squalene, For Use In COVID-19 Vaccine. Squalene Is A Common Ingredient Used In Cosmetics, Malaria And Flu Vaccines. Olive Oil And Sugar Cane, E.G., Are Sustainable Squalene Alternatives, But Shark Is Preferred Because It Cost Less And Yields More.

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Wolf-Rayet Stars Are Rare, Massive Stars Near Death, With Exposed Hot Cores After Losing Outer Layers And Blasting Intense Winds. Only About 1 In 100 Million Massive Stars Reach This Phase. Apep, ~8,000 Ly Away In Our Milky Way, Is A Unique System That Hosts Two Such Stars, Each 10–15 Times The Sun’s Mass, Forming Dramatic Dust Pinwheels.

Australia’s National Science Agency Is Indicating That Covid-19 Virus Can Infectiously Linger On Some Surfaces Like Bank Notes And Phone Screen For 28 Days. But Their Experiment Seem Flawed And Was Performed In The Dark, As UV Light Is Known To Kill Covid-19 Virus. Moreover, Many Experts Have Thrown Doubt On Real-Life Surface Transmission.

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Researchers May Have Identified 24 Super Habitable Exoplanets Than Earth. These Exoplanets Were Identified, From A Database Of More Than 4000 Exoplanets, By Considering Their Habitable Properties, And Their Host Suns. Unfortunately, These Exoplanets Are Inaccessible for Further Qualitative Studies As They Are Too Far Away, > 100 LY.

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A Virologist, Robert Gallo, Is Stating That There Is A Chance The Flu Shot Could Offer Some Protection Against COVID-19. Gallo, One Of The Scientists Credited With Discovering HIV, Is Indicating The Possibility From Some Unexpected Advantages That The Flu Shot Could Offer Our Immune System, Based On Previous Evidence From Various Vaccines.

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