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The World’s Largest Star Sapphire Cluster, Named “Serendipity Sapphire,” Was Discovered In Gemstone-Rich Ratnapura Area Of Sri Lanka. Serendipity Sapphire Was Found In A Backyard, By Accident, During A Well Dig. The Pale Blue Coloured Gemstone, Weighing 510 kg Or 2.5 Million Carats, Is Estimated To Be Worth $100 Million In Intl. Market.

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InSight, Based On Mars Quake Data, Has Provided The Best Glimpse Of Mars Interior, Indicating The Core Comprises Liquid Nickel-Iron, And Is Larger Than Previously Thought, 2,230–2320 Miles Wide, And Probably Less Dense. While The Lithosphere, With Thicker Crust, Is Similar But ~ 56 Miles Thicker Than Earth’s, And Lacks Tectonic Plates.

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New Evidence Is Indicating That Neanderthals, Like Home Sapiens, Were Capable Of Artistic Or Symbolic Expression. Based On The Discovery, In The Famous Unicorn Cave In the Harz Mountains Of Central Germany, Of One Of The Oldest Art Works In The World—A Toe Bone Of A Prehistoric Deer Carved With Lines By Neanderthals 51,000 Years Ago.

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Research Is Indicating That 7% Of The Human DNA Is Unrelated To Our Ancient Ancestors And, Therefore, Unique To Modern Humans. This Find Indicates How Closely Related Modern Humans Are To, E.g., Neanderthals. The Study Was Conducted Using DNAs From 279 Humans Located Worldwide And From Fossilized Remains Of Neanderthals and Denisovans.

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Researchers, Based On DNA Analysis, May Have Found The World’s Known Earliest Person, A 5000-Year Old Hunter Gatherer, In His Twenties And Buried In Latvia, Who Was Infected With An Ancient Strain Of The Black Death Plague, Caused By The Bacterium, Yersinia Pestis. The Plague Wiped Out About Half Of Europe’s Population In The 1300s.

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Researchers May Have Discovered An Entirely New Human Species Called Homo Longi Or Dragon Man. The Discovery Was Made Based On The Analysis Of A Nearly Intact, At Least, 146,000 Years Old Skull Found In Harbin, China ~90 Years Ago. Researchers Are Indicating That Dragon Man Is More Closely Related To Humans Than Neanderthals Are.

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Researchers May Have Discovered, From Fossil Bones Found In A Sinkhole In Isreal, A New Human Ancestor Named Nesher Ramla Homo (NRH). NRH Is Said To Have Lived, Alongside Humans, Btw 140,000 And 120,000 Years Ago In Arabia And Israel. And That The Chinless And Possibly More Ancient NRH Interbreded With Humans And Neanderthals.

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The World’s Third Largest Diamond May Have Been Discovered In Botswana. The Diamond, Which Is 1,098 Carat, Measures 73mm Long, 52mm Wide, And 27mm Thick. The Diamond Is Smaller Than The 3,106 Carat Cullinan Stone Diamond Discovered In South Africa In 1905 And The 1,109 Carat Lesedi La Rona Diamond Found In Botswana in 2015.

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Researchers Discovered That Mouse Sperm, Freeze-Dried And Exposed To A High Level Of Cosmic Radiation For ~6 Years At The International Space Station, Can Still Successfully Birth Healthy Normal Pups That Are Free Of Genetic Defects. This Discovery Is Important As We Plan Future Long Term Space Exploration And Colonization Missions.

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An Egyptian Mummy Thought To Be That Of An Ancient Male Priest, Turned Out To Be The First Well Preserved Pregnant Egyptian Mummy Ever Discovered. The Mummy, Between Ages 20 To 30 And 26 To 30 Weeks Pregnant, Dates Back More Than 2000 Years, During Cleopatra’s Reign. And The Mummy May Provide New Possibilities For Pregnancy Studies In Ancient Times.

An Archaeologist Has Discover, In Italy, A 2000 Year Old Marble Head That Depicts The First Roman Emperor, Augustus Octavian, At A Young Age. The Head, 35cm High, Dated To Between 20 BC And 10 AD, Was Found In Isernia, Previously Called Aesernia, An Ancient Roman Colony. Augustus Became Rome’s First Emperor In 27 BC.

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Researchers May Have Discovered The Oldest Burial Site In Africa Dated To About 78,000 Years, In A Cave In Kenya. The Ancient Burial Site Is Said To Be That Of A 3-Year-Old Boy, Whom Scientists Call Mtoto, Meaning “The Kid” In Swahili. The Burial Is Said To Be An Important Piece For Understanding Human Evolutionary History In Africa.

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Researchers, Via Hubble Space Telescope, May Have Discovered The Youngest Exoplanet Planet Called PDS 70b. The Planet, 379 LY From Earth, Is As Big As Jupiter And Still Growing, Showing For The First Time Mass Being Pulled Onto A Planet From The Young Star It Orbits. This Discovery Could Shed Light On How Similar Gas Giant Planets Formed.

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Researchers May Have Discovered, In 2009, The Oldest Water Sample On Earth, At A Depth Of 3km, In A Base Metal Mine In Timmins, Ontario. The Water Sample, Dated To 1.6 Byrs, Could Offer Clue About Life Possibilities On Mars Or Other Planets. The Water, 10 Times Saltier Than Seawater, Is Said To Comprise Ingredients Necessary For Life.

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A Rare Bottle Of Whiskey, known As The Old Ingledew Whiskey, Originally Thought To Be From 1850, Was Carbon Dated To Be Most Likely Bottled Btw 1763-1803, Which Makes It, To The Best Of Known Knowledge, The Oldest Bottle Of Whiskey To Exist. The Whiskey Is Set To Be Auctioned For Btw US$20,000 And US$40,000 In June Of 2021.

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The Remains Of A High-Status Roman Villa Was Uncovered In Britain, During An Excavation In Eastfield. The Layout Style Of The Structure, Which Could Be The First In The World, Has Never Been Seen In Britain And Probably In The Whole Of The Old Roman Empire. But Why Was This Villa Built At This Roman Outpost, And What Was It Use(s)?

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Researchers Successfully Made A Second Attempt At Producing Human-Monkey Chimeras, By Infusing Human Stem Cells Into 132 Embryos Of Long-Tailed Macaques. But The Embryos Were Then Terminated 19 Days After Injecting The Stem Cells. Chimeras May Be Unethical, But May Help In Drug Tests Or To Overcome Donor Organs/Tissues Shortages Globally.

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Archeologists Have Made The Most Significant Archaeological Discovery In Egypt Since The 1920s. The Find Is A 3400 Year Old City Called “The Rise Of Aten,” Which Was The Largest Administrative And Industrial Centre Along The West Bank Of Luxor During The Reign Of Amenhotep III, The 9th Pharaoh Of Ancient Egypt 18th Dynasty.

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A New Study, Based On 46 Male College Students And 1060 University Students, Is Indicating That The Higher The Psychopathic Traits In Folks, The Better They Are At Faking Remorse. And The More They Are Seen As Trustworthy, Especially By Women Who Show Higher Levels Of Emotionality. For Example, Sentimentality, Anxiety, And Fearfulness.

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The 4m-Long Saint-Bélec Slab, First Discovered In 1900, May Be Europe’s Oldest Map, With Its Markings Depicting A Rough 3D Match To The River Region In Which The Ancient Saint-Bélec Burial Mound Existed. There Are Such Stone Map Carvings All Over The World, But This May Be The First Map, Globally, To Depict An Area On A Specific Scale.

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