Abbey Carper

Fatima Payman Is Trailblazing And Making History By Being The First Hajiba Wearing Senator, And Also The First Afghanistan-Australian To Be Elected Into the Australian Parliament. And At Just 27 Years Old, She Is The Youngest Person In The Current Australian Parliament. Impressive Lady!

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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Doctors From Two Countries, For The First Time In History, Used Virtual Reality During The Successful Separation Of 3-Year Old Twins, Bernardo And Arthur Lima, Who Were Born With “Fused Brains”. The 27-Hour Operation, Involving More Than 100 Medics, Took Place At The Instituto Estadual do Cerebro Paulo Niemeyer In Rio de Janeiro, Brazi.

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Saudi Arabia Plans To Build The World’s Biggest Structure—2 Mirrored Buildings That Are ~488 m High And Running Parallel For 120 Km Across Coastal And Desert Terrain. The Buildings, Est. At A Trillion Dollars And Part Of The Smart City Project Called Neom, Will House ~5 Mil People. And Be Connect By Walkways And Underground Trains.

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The First Mission To Return Samples From Another Planet Will Land On Earth In 2033. The Plan Is To Send A Lander Carrying 2 Sample Recovery Helicopters. The Perseverance Rover Will Then Transport The Samples To The Lander. But If The Rover Can’t Transport The Samples, Then The 2 Helicopters Will Be Tasked With Retrieving The Samples.

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Researchers Now Understand How The Protein, TGF-beta, Controls The Process Of Division Or Death Of Hair Cells, Eventually Causing Baldness. Too Much Of TGF-beta Would Kill Hair Cells And Vice Versa. A More Precise Understanding Of How TGF-beta Activates Cell Division Could Help Activate Follicle Stem Cells And Stimulate Hair Growth.

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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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A New Study Indicates That Young Adults, Under 40, Are Prone To Health Risk If They Consume More Than 2 Teaspoons Of Wine Or 2.5 Tablespoons Of Beer Per Day, Which Is Alarming As ~60% Of Folks Who Consume Unsafe Amount Of Alcohol Fall Within This Age Range. But Small Alcohol Amounts Are Safe For Folks Over 40 And With No Medical Condition.

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The US FDA Will Review The First Ever Over-The-Counter Daily Birth Control Pill From HRA Pharma, A Unit Of Perrigo Company. The Request For The Prescription Drug, Sold Under The Brand Opill, To Become An Over-The-Counter Drug, Comes In The Wake Of The Us Supreme Court Overturning 1973 Roe V. Wade Case That Legalized Abortion Nationwide.

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Alena Analeigh, Age 13, Has Made History By Being The Youngest Black Person To Gain Admission Into A Medical School In The United States. Alena, At 12 Years Old, Did Gain Admission To The ASU’s Engineering Program But Decided To Study Medicine. Alena Will Attend The University Of Alabama At Birmingham Heersink School Of Medicine. Cool!

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Dr. June Huh, A South Korean And High School Dropout Turned College Professor, Was Awarded The Fields Medal, The Highest Honor In Mathematics For His Work In The Field Of Geometric Combinatorics. The Award Could Be Referred To As The “Nobel Prize In Mathematics. Huh, Age 39, Is The 9Th Field Medal Recipient From The Princeton Faculty.

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Aminata Touré Has Again Made History After Being Sworn In As The First Minister Of African (Mali) Origin In Germany. Ms. Touré, Age 29, Was Appointed As Minister For Social Affairs, Youth, Family, Senior Citizens, Integration And Equality In Schleswig-Holstein, Which Is One Of The 16 States Of Germany, With The Capital City As Kiel.

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A Chinese Electric Vehicle Firm, BYD, Has Surpassed Tesla In The Global Sale Of Electric Vehicles In The First Half Of 2022. BYD, Partly Owned By Warren Buffett, Sold 638,157 Electric Vehicles While Tesla Sold 564,743 Vehicles. However, In Fairness, BYD Vehicles Are Electric Or Plug-In Hybrid Compared To Tesla’s Full Battery Electric.

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A New Research On The Role Of Nutrition In Parkinson’s Disease, Based On An Extensive Review Of 52 Studies Conducted Btw 2000 And Now, Indicates Milk As The Worst Drink That Can Increase The Risk Of Parkison’s Disease. It Is Advised To, E.g., Drink Water Or Consume Dairy In Moderation As It Contains Loads Of Unhealthy Saturated Fats.

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Mellody Hobson Will Be The First Black Woman To Be A Part Owner Of An NFL Team, When The Ownership Group, In Which She Is A Member, Takes Over The Denver Broncos In A $4.65 B Deal. Hobson, Age 53, A Co-CEO Of The $17.8 B Ariel Investments, Married To Star Wars Creator, George Lucas, Sits On Many Boards Like Starbucks And Estée Lauder.

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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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Zahid Quraishi Is The First Muslim American Federal Judge, In US History, After He Was Confirmed By The US Senate To The U.S. District Court For The District Of New Jersey. He Was Also The First Asian-American To Serve On The Federal Bench In New Jersey After His Appointment, In 2019, As A U.S. Magistrate Judge For The Same District.

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NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), For The First Time In History, Has Appointed A Woman As Its Head. Dr. Laurie Leshin, Who Is Also The Vice President Of Caltech, Is A Distinguished Geochemist And Space Scientist. Dr. Leshin, An Advocate For Gender Equality In STEM, Wants To Make JPL An All-Inclusive Environment For Great Minds.

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A Study Is Indicating That Folks Who Experience Bad Dreams In Older Age, Without Any Trigger, Are Twice Prone To Parkinson’s Disease. The Study Was Done Using 12 Years Of Data From 3818 Older Men Living Independently, And Questionnaires That Included Sleep Quality Questions. Researchers Plan To Do More Studies In Larger & Diverse Group.

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