Anika Reyansh

A Study, In A First Of Its Kind, Is Indicating That Conotoxins, From Venomous Cone Snail, Has Potential For Developing Novel Anti-Adhesion Treatment For Severe Malaria Like P. Falciparum. Conotoxins Could Disrupt Protein-Protein And Protein-Polysaccharide Interactions That Directly Contribute To Malaria, And Possibly To AIDS And COVID-19.

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Virginia, A State That Has Executed More People Than Any US State, Has Voted To Abolish The Death Penalty. And Establish A Maximum Punishment Of life In Prison Without Parole. But A Judge May Suspend Part Of The Sentence. The Bill, When Signed By Gov. Ralph Northam, Will Make Virginia The First Southern State To Abolish The Death Penalty.

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The Gaboon Viper (Bitis Gabonica) Is The Heaviest Venomous But Placid-Natured African Snake, And The Largest Member Of The Bitis Genus Of Vipers. The Snake Is Said To Hold The World’s Record For Having The Longest Fangs (~5cm), Which Can Inject ~2 Grams Of Venom Per Bite, The Largest Yield Of All Venomous Snakes.

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Sesame Street Has Added Two New Puppets, Noor And Aziz, To Feature In A Series Of Educational Videos That Will Deliver Early Years Of Education To Rohingya Children Living In The Worlds Largest Refugee Camp, Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar. Noor And Aziz, Six-Year-Old Twins, Are Adapted To Be The First Media Characters To Look And Sound Like Rohingya Kids.

With The Rising Cases Of Coronavirus, Some States Have Created A Coronavirus Notification App That Can Send Alerts, Via Bluetooth, When A Person Is Close To Someone Infected. Now, Unless One Is Masked-Up, The App Only Informs You After Exposure. But, At Least, You Now Know To Take Precautions To Avoid Infecting Others. Ingenious!

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SpaceX Crew Dragon, In A Fully Operational Mission, Made History By Being The First Privately Owned Spacecraft, Built By SpaceX, To Deliver, On Monday, November 16th, 2020, A 4-Person Crew For A 6 Months Long Stay At The International Space Station (ISS). SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Completed It First Test Mission To ISS In March Of 2019.

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Researchers Study People With Similar Symptoms To Find A Biological Explanation For The Symptoms. But Now, Researchers Working Backward, Have Discovered A Deadly Genetic Disease In Men, “VEXAS,” By Studying “2,500 People’s Genes For Variations That Could Be Linked To Wide-Ranging Symptoms Of Their Undiagnosed Inflammatory Conditions.”

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A Rare Puppy Dog With Green Fur Was Born, In A Five-Dog Litter, At A Farm On The Mediterranean Island Of Sardinia. The Puppy, Named Pistachio Because Of The Green Fur, Is Believed To Be Green Because It Probably Made Contact With A Green Pigment Called Biliverdin While In The Womb. Unfortunately, The Green Fur Has Began To Fade.

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Researchers Are Indicating That The Big Bang Is Not The Beginning Of Our Universe, As There Was Something Before The Big Bang, Which We Will Have In Our Universe Future. Their Notion Is Based On The Existence Of Unexplained Spots Of Electromagnetic Radiation In The Sky (Hawking Points) From Older Universe, Coming Out Of Black Holes.

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Singapore Will Be The First Country In The World To Implement Facial Verification In Its National Identity Scheme, SingPass, To Allow Access To Government Services. Facial Verification, Already In Use In, E.G., Singapore’s Major Banks, And During Student Test, Will Ensure That Persons Requiring Government Services Are Who They Say They Are.

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Researchers, In Australia, Have Found A New Neurotoxin, Called Gympietide, In The Stinging Dendrocnide Tree. The Neurotoxin Is Similiar To The Toxins Produced In Venomous Animals Like Spiders and Cone Snails. The Toxin Is Said To Cause Long-Lasting Excruciating Pain. Researchers Hope The New Toxin Study Helps In Developing Painkillers.

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A Furry Puppy Dog Or Wolf, Discovered In Siberia In 2011, May Have Eaten One Of The Last Woolly Rhinos For Its Last Meal. This Find Is Based On A Hairy Piece Of Tissue Found Preserved In The Canine’s Stomach, Which DNA Test and Dating Determined Belongs To A Woolly Rhinos That Went Extinct ~14,000 Yrs Ago, About The Time The Canine Died.

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A New Study Is Indicating That Honey May Be More Effective And Less Harmful For Treating Upper Respiratory Tract Infections (URTI), Like Cough And Cold Symptoms, Than Antibiotics. URTI Are Said To Be The Most Frequent Reasons For Prescribing Antibiotics. Honey Is Safe For Everyone Except For Infants And Folks With Honey Allergy.

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An Interesting Story Of Twin Brothers Married To Twin Sisters In A Ceremony Officiated By Twin Ministers. And Now, The Twin Sisters Are Pregnant At The Same Time And Living Under The Same Roof With Their Husbands. The Couples Met In 2017 At The Annual Twins Days Festival In Twinsburg, Ohio. I Wonder What Twin Stuff They Do Next!?

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Researchers May Have Developed An Experimental Blood Test Capable Of Detecting Multiple Cancer Types 4 Years Before Any Symptom Shows. “The PanSeer Test” Was Derived By Studying 1.6 Million Blood Samples, Of Over 123,000 Folks In China, Collected Over 10 Years From 2007. The Test Is Most Welcome In Early Cancer Detection And Treatment.

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Germany, In A Global Poll, Has Been Ranked As The Most Admired Country In The World For The Third Year In A Roll. The Rank Was Derived From A US-Based Gallup Poll Survey Of 1,000 Adults In 134 Countries In 2019. The US, China, And Russia Were Ranked The 2nd, 3rd, And 4th Positions Respectively.

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A Pet Cat Became The First Animal To Test Positive For COVID-19 In The Uk, Suspectedly From Its Owner. Experts Recommend Hand Wash Before/After Contact With Pets, Owners With Coronavirus Should Avoid Close Contact With Pets, And keep Pets Indoors To Avoid Virus Spread. However, There’re No Evidence Pets Can Transmit Coronavirus To Humans.

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A Team of Scientists Have Grown A Flowering Plant From A 32,000-Year-Old Frozen Silene Stenophylla Seed, Dating Back To The Pleistocene Epoch. This Revived Plant Surpasses The Oldest Previous Record holder—The 2000-Year-Old Revived Plant From Judean Date Palm Seeds. Pleistocene Aged Animal Has Also Previously Been Revived.

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Scientists May Have Observed, For The First Time In Dolphins, A Behaviour That Is Only Sometimes Observed In Non-Human Animals Like primates. And That Is The Ability Of Dolphins To Learn From Their Peers. In This Case, To Trap Their Preys In Empty Shells (Shelling)— A Skill That Is Not Learned From Their Parents Or Elders. Smart!

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A New Study, Which Took Place During The Summer And Over A-Three-Year Period, Is Indicating That Hummingbirds Can See Diverse Colors That Are Invisible To Human Eyes. And This Is Because Of Their Four-Color Cone Vision (Tetrachromatic). And These Colors Influence Their Decisions Regarding Food, Evading Predators, Or Choosing A Mate. Cool!

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