Discovery

Scientists, For The First Time, Have Developed A Living Solar Cell From The Succulent Plant Corpuscularia Lehmannii. The Cell Works When Electron Is Transported, Via Water And Nutrients As Electrolytes, During Photosynthesis. The Plant’s Leaf Is Said To Generate 20 µA/cm2 of Photocurrent Density, For Over A Day, When Exposed To Light.

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Researchers, Based On NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Data, Have Found, In The Gale Crater, A Gemstone, Opal, Which Surrounds An Extensive Network Of Fractures That Could Have Been Water-Rich And Provided Habitable Conditions. Opal, Which Forms From Silica & Water, Could Act As A Proxy Or Be Used As A Water Source In Future Mars Exploration.

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Scientists Are Stating That Rainwater Is Unsafe To Drink Anywhere In The World Due To Persistent Harmful Chemicals In Them, Some Of Which, like PFAS, Can Cause Cancer. The Study Is Based On The US Environmental Protection Stds For Levels Of The Thousands Of Chemicals That Do Not Break Down And Are Continuously Recycled In The Envr.

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Researchers Are Indicating That The Moon Has Crater Pits That Could Provide Habitable Temperature For Humans. And The Temp Is Said To Steadily Hover Around 63 °F (17 °C). The Pits Are Speculated To Lead To Caves That Could Provide Shelter For Humans. Both The Temp And Shelter Could Lead To Long Term Safe Lunar Exploration And Moon Base.

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Researchers, For The First Time, Have Found A Unique Solar System With 3 Suns. 2 Of The Suns, With Combined Mass That’s 12X Our Sun’s Mass, Orbit Each Other In 24 Hrs, WhileThe 3rd Larger Sun (16X Our Sun’s Mass) Orbits The Other 2. More Study Is Needed To Find Out How The Stars Formed In The Solar System, HD 98800, Which Is 150 LY Away.

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Researchers, Via Genetic Study, Have Discovered The World’s Largest Clone. The Clone, A 4500 Yrs Old Massive Network Of Seaweed Called Posidonia Australis, Was Found In Australia. And Is Said To Cover More Than 77 mi² (200 km²). P. Australis Is Said To Be A Single Plant That Clones Itself, Unlike Some Seaweeds That Reproduce Sexually.

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The World’s Deepest, 6895m, Shipwreck May Have Been Found. The Ship, USS Samuel B Roberts, Sank In Battle Against The Japanese, In The Philippine Sea, In October 1944. The Ship Was Discovered By Mr. Victor Vescovo–The First Person To Visit The Deepest Points In Earth’s 5 Oceans. And Climbed The Highest Peaks On Each Of The 7 Continents.

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The Largest Known Cave Art In North America Has Been Discovered In Alabama. The Artwork, A Native American Drawing, Had Remained Unseen For More Than 1000 Years Before It Was Found In A Cave That Was First Discovered In 1998. The Giant Artworks, Which Could Depict Spirits Of The Underworld, Was Discovered Using A 3D Scan Method.

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Researchers, For The First Time, Detected DNA & RNA Nucleobases In Meteorites That Fell To Earth In The Last 100 Yrs, Using A DNA Extraction Method That’s 100X More Sensitive Than Methods Used Since The 1960s. And The Nucleobases– Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, Guanine, And Uracil, May Indicate That The Ingredient For Life Came From Space.

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The Largest Ice Comet Nucleus Ever Seen Has Been Confirmed Via NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The Comet, C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein), ~80 Miles In Diameter, Was First Observed In 2010 From An Observatory In Chile When It Was ~3 Billion Miles From The Sun. The Previous Record Holder, C/2002 VQ94, Discovered In 2002, Was ~60 Miles Across.

Researchers May Have Discovered A Well Preserved Dinosaur Leg, Still Covered In Flesh, In The Tanis Fossil Site In North Dakota, USA. But This Fossil Is Unique As It’s Speculated To Be The First Discovery Of A Dinosaur That Was Killed And Entombed On The Exact Day Of The Cataclysmic Asteroid Strike ~66 Myrs Ago.

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Scientists Used The Estimated Ages Of 250,000 Stars, Known As Sub-Giants, In The Milky Way To Determine That Part Of Our Galaxy, Associated With The Thick Disk, Is 2 Byrs Older Than Earlier Thought. The Stars’ Ages Indicate That The First Phase Of Star Formation Started ~800 Myrs After The Big Bang But Accelerated 2 Billion Years Later.

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Researchers Have Discovered, In NE China, The Largest Impact Crater That Formed On Earth In The Last 100000 Years. The Crescent-Shaped Crater, Called “Yilan Crater,” Is The Second Impact Crater Discovered In China. The Crater, ~46,000 To 53,000 Years Old, Is ~1.15 Miles Across. The Meteor Crater In Arizona Previously Held The Record.

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Researchers Have Discovered The World’s Largest, ~2cm Long, Bacterium In The Caribbean Mangroves. The Bacterium, Said To Have Pushed The Limit Of How Big And Sophisticated Microbes Can Become, Is Also Said Could Be The Missing Link In The Evolution Of Complex Cells. Researchers Are Proposing To Call The Bacterium Thiomargarita Magnifica.

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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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Researchers Have Found The First Direct Evidence Of A Never Before Seen Mineral That Forms In The Mantle. The Mineral, Davemaoite, Is Said To Be A High Pressure-Temperature Form Of Wollastonite, A Commonly Found Mineral. The Davemaoite Was Discovered, Using Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction, In A Botswana Diamond, Which Formed In The mantle.

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The Longest Partial Lunar Eclipse In This Century And In ~580 Years Will Occur For 3 Hrs And 28 Mins, Begining Late Thursday Night To Early Friday (18th-19th, Nov. 2021) Across The USA. And Spectators Do Not Need Special Glasses To View It. A Partial Lunar Eclipse Occurs When The Sun, Earth, And Moon Are In An Almost Straight Line.

A Researcher Is Stating That The Moon”s Top Rocky Soil Layer Contains Enough Oxygen That Can Sustain 8 Billion People For 100,000 Years. However, The Oxygen, Which Makes Up 45% Of The Lunar Soil, Would Have To Be Extracted From Its Bonded State With, Fortunately, Existing Technology, Increasing The Feasibility For Long Term Moon Base.

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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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