Anika Reyansh

Sesame Street, The 52-Year-Old Show, Has Added The First Asian American Muppet To Its Show. The Muppet, Called Ji-Young, A 7-Year-Old Korean American Who Loves Playing The Electric Guitar And Skateboarding, Will Usher In Rock Music, Asian Culture And Talk About Racism, Given The Surge In Racism And Violence Targeting Asians And Asian Americans.

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.

WHO Has Approved The World’s First Malaria Vaccine. The RTS,S Vaccine, From GlaxoSmithKline, Is Also The First Ever Approved For Use Against A Parasitic Disease In Humans. The Vaccine Was Approved Based On Its Positive Results In Ghana, Kenya, And Malawi, As It Was Found To Reduce Malaria Cases By 40% And Hospitalizations By Nearly A Third.

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MIT Researchers Have Developed A Robot, Called RFusion, Which Can Find Lost Items, In Addition To Other Futuristic Industrial Applications. The Robot, Integrated With Camera, Antenna, Robotic Arm, And AI Can Precisely Locate Lost Objects From The RF Signals, From The Robot’s Antenna, Which Are Reflected Off RFID Tags Originally Stuck To The Objects.

A Dutch Company MX3D Premièred The World’s First 3-D Printed Steel Bridge, ~40 Ft Long, For Pedestrians And Cyclists. A Twin Digital Model Of The Bridge Was Built, Based On Data From Over A Dozen Sensors On The Bridge, To Help Understand Long-Term Behaviour Of Printed Metal Structures In Terms Of, E.g., Aesthetics, And Efficiency/Highly Optimised Design.

Justin Chukwudi Olewuezi Has Become The First Nigerian To Graduate From A 133-Year-Old Russian University, The Siberian State Medical University In Tomsk. And He Is Also The First Nigerian At The University Because, According To Him, Most Nigerians Prefer The Western Part Of Russia. This Shows You Can Achieve Your Goal Wherever You Go.

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MIT Engineers May Have Discovered A New Method Of Generating Electricity. The Method Works Via The Interaction Of Carbon With Its Surrounding Fluid, An Organic Solvent, Which Draws Electrons Out Of Carbon Particles, Thereby Generating Electricity. The Electricity Is Said To Be Sufficient For Chemical Reactions Or To Power Nanoscale Robots.

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A Homeless Man, Tim Shea, Age 70, Has Become The First Person Ever To Live In A 3-D Printed House Built By The Company, Icon. The 3-D, 400 Sq Ft, Printed House Is One Of The Many Houses Built In The Community First! Village, Near Austin, Texas. The Houses Are Said To Be Built With Materials More Resilient To Natural Disasters.

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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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