Anika Reyansh

A Dog, Named Winston, In North Carolina, Has Tested Positive For The Coronavirus. And To The Best Of Knowledge, This Could Be The First Of Such Case For A Dog In The U.S. Well, I Guess This Throws Out The Notion That Dogs Are Immune To Coronavirus, And It May Also Defeat The Plan To Use Dogs To Detect The Virus.

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The Largest Hole Ever Observed In The Ozone Layer Over The Arctic Has Closed. The Hole, Observed In Late March 2020, Is Thought To Have Been Created By The Unusual Cold Temperature Over The Arctic. And The Closure Has Nothing To Do With COVID-19 Air Pollution Reduction, But Is Due To A 20ºC Higher That Normal Temperature.

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A Tiger At The Phoenix Zoo In New York Is Said To Have Contracted Coronavirus From One Of Its Keepers, Who Showed No Sign Of The Virus. This Discovery Could Imply That Cats Or Pets With Enzymes Similar To Humans May Also Catch The Virus. But Dogs, According To Researchers, Are Not Likely To Get Infected. Hmm!!

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Coronavirus Can Infect Anyone, Does Not Matter If You Are A Top Ranking Politician, Super Star, Color Of Your Skin Or Your Nationality And Age. People Like Prince Charles, Boris Johnson, Tom Hanks, Idris Elba, Rand Paul, And The List Goes On, Have Contracted The Virus. So Take This Seriously And Practice Social Distancing.

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Researchers, In What Is Known As Antigenic Imprinting, Have Stated That The First Type Of Early Childhood Influenza Virus That One Is Exposed To Dictates One’s Ability To Fight The Flu For The Rest Of One’s Live. This Could Help Access Risk, At Any Given Year, Based On One’s Age And The Dominant Virus At Birth.

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Researchers, Comparing The Behavioral Differences Btw Wolves And Dogs, Made A Shocking Discovery That Wolves Can Also Play Fetch When They Observed 3 Wolf Pups Retrieve A Ball For A Complete Stranger. This Is Because It’s Been Hypothesized That The Ability To Understand Human Cues, Like Those Required For Fetch, Arose In Domesticated Dogs >15,000 YA.

Researchers Have Created A Smart Shirt, With Smartphone Interface, Which Accurately Monitors Breathing While The Wearer Is Engaged In Normal Day Activities. Researchers Plan To Explore The Shirt In Monitoring COPD, And Possibly Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Or Post Lung Transplant. Smart Shirts Already Exist But For Sports Folks.

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A New Nematode Species Was Discovered In Mono Lake, CA, Where High PH (10), Salt Conc. And Arsenic Levels, Which Can Kill A Person 500X Over, Exist. The Nematode, Auanema Sp., Has 3 Sexes And Carries Its Offspring Like A Kangaroo. And It Could Teach Humans To Better Adapt To Stress And Arsenic-Contaminated Drinking Water.

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A Study Of Nearly 730,000 Births, Btw 1967-1978, Including 13,800 Twins, From Norway, Is Indicating That Females In Female-Male Twins Are Less Likely To Achieve Social Economic Success Than Females In Female-Female Twins. And This May Be Linked To Prenatal Testosterone In Female-Male Twins. But The Mechanism Is Still Uncertain.

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Being Able To See, Like A Superhero, In Infrared, According To Scientists, Was Successfully Achieved In Mice. The Procedure Was Accomplished By Injecting Nanoparticles That Modulate Infrared Wavelengths To What The Eyes Can See. No Residual Effect To Normal Vision Was Detected. This Could Lead To A Method Of Normal Vision Treatment.

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A New Report Is Indicating That The Insect Mass Is Declining 8 Times Faster Than Mammals, Birds, And Reptiles (~2.5% /Year). This Rate Could Lead To Their Extinction Within A Century. The Decline Is Mostly Due To Intensive Farming That Utilizes Pesticides, In addition To Climate Change And Urbanization. The Consequences Would Be Deadly.

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Measles Is One Of The Most Contagious Diseases In The World. But Fortunately, There Is A Vaccine For It, Which Almost Help Eliminate The Disease In Places Like The USA In 2000. But The Disease Seems To Be Making A Come Back Because Many Are Opting Out Of Vaccinating Their Babies Due To Doubts About The Drug. Hmm!

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Another Reason Why I Love This Study Is That It Supports One Of My Cravings: Eating Chocolate! According To The Study, Done In Europe On 163 People, Chocolate-Based Medication, ROCOCO, Was Seen To Better Reduce The Frequency Of Cough And Sleep Disruption Within 2 Days As Compared To The Usual Codeine Based Cough Syrup.

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Scientists May Have Created A Blood Test That Can Detect Cancer In 10 Minutes. The Test Is Said To Use A Simple “Universal Marker Of Cancer” To Detect Cancer Anywhere In The Body. The Test, When Perfected, May Be The Holy Grail In The Fight Against Cancer Via Its Quick Diagnoses, Treatment, And Cost-Effectiveness.

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The USA FDA, In An Attempt To Curb The Disturbing Statistics With Regards To The Number Of Folks with The HPV, Has Expanded The Use Of The Gardasil 9 HPV Vaccine To Protect Folks In The Age Group 27 to 45 Against The 9 Types Of HPV That Are Responsible For The Majority Of HPV-Related Diseases.

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The Biggest Grossing Romantic Comedy Movie 10 Years After The 2009 Movie, “Proposal” Has Emerged. The Movie, “The Crazy Rich Asians,” Released In August 2018, As At The Time Of This Post, Has Grossed About $165.7 Million. The Highest Ever Grossing Romantic Comedy Movie Is The 2002 “My Big Fat Greek Wedding.”

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It Seems Like Antimicrobial Disinfectants Could Have Some Side Effect On The Human Health. A New Study Is Indicating That Antimicrobial Disinfectants Could Increase The Bacteria Lachnospiraceae, A Normal Component Of Our Gut Microbiota, In Kids. Lachnospiraceae Has Been Linked To Overweight Based On Animal Studies.

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The First Clear Evidence That Neanderthals, Denisovans, And Early Modern Humans Interbred May Have Been Discovered, Via DNA Analysis, After Scientists Long Suspected This Behaviour. The Discovery Was Made When A 90,000-Year-Old Bone Of A Female, Whose Mother Was A Neanderthals And Father, A Denisovans Was Discovered In A Cave In Siberia.

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This Discovery Has Many Implications, Which Includes That The 2 Revived Nematodes Frozen, In A Permafrost, During The Pleistocene Age (2.6 Myr To ~12 Kyr) Could Make Them The Oldest Live Animals On Earth. The 2 Worms Were Dated To About 32 Kyr And 42 Kyr. The Discovery Could Also Have Major Implications For Breakthroughs In Cryogenics.

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The Dreaded Poliovirus, Like Many Deadly Viruses, May Be Capable Of Treating A Deadly Brain Cancer Known As Glioblastoma. Scientists Speculated On The Possibility After An Engineered Poliovirus Was Seen, From A Small And Inconclusive Study, To Increase The Survival Rate Of Folks With The Cancer Relative To Conventional Treatment Methods. 

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