Anika Reyansh

The Scientists At Penn State, To Reduce >141 GL Of Water Used To Flush Toilets/Day, Have Created An Ultra-Slippery Toilet Coating That Can Cut Water Quantity Required To Flush Excrement By 90%. It Also Prevents Bacteria Build Up In Toilet Bowls. The Coating, Which Can Be Affected By Urine, Would Require Reapplication After 50 Flushes.

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An Ape Species, Danuvius Guggenmosi, Now Indicates That Human Ancestors Stood Upright Millions Of Years Earlier Than Thought, Based On The Discovered Male Ape Fossil, With Resemblance To Human Bones, Which Lived ~12 Mya In Now Southern Germany. Previous Upright Standing Apes Records, From Crete and Kenya, Date Back To 6 Mya.

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In A Bid To Enhance Computer-Human Interaction, A Team Of French Human-Computer Interaction Researchers Have Created Something That Might Give You The Creeps. They Call It “Skin-On,” A Mobile Case Made With Synthetic Human Skin. Skin-On Is Said To Respond To, For Example, Tickling, Poking, Stretching, Grabbing, And Pinching. Hmm!

Many Elephants Are Held In Captivity For Research, Conservation, And Tourism. But, According To A Recent Study, Asian Elephants Held In Captivity Are Hindered In Reproduction For Over A Decade. And Calves, From Captured Females, Have Lower Survival Rates. ~16,000 Asian Elephants Are Held In Captivity In Countries Like Myanmar And India.

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Scientists Have Discovered That Babies In The Womb Have Lizard-Like Muscles That May Indicate The Remnant Of Our Evolution, About 250 Million Years, From Reptiles. The Muscles, Except For The Ones In The Thumb, Are Deleted Before Birth. But When They Persist, May Be Linked To Limb Defects. But Why Make Them Only To Delete Them Afterward?

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Researchers, For The First Time, Have Identified Food Types Fed To Prehistoric Babies. They Discovered This When They Found Milk, From Ruminant Animals Like Sheep, Goats, And Cows, In Vessels, Used As Baby Bottles, Dating Back > 7,000 Years. Feeding Babies Animal Milk Is Said To Increase Fertility In Women, Resulting In More Births.

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For The First Time, Scientists May Have Reconstructed How Mysterious Early Humans, Denisovans, Look Like Via DNA Methylation Data–A Process That Relies On Extracting Information From Gene Activity Patterns, Rather Than DNA Sequences. Data Showed Denisovans Partly Resembled Neanderthals And Modern Humans, But With Some Unique Features.

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WHO And The World Bank Report Is Indicating That Disease X Could Kill Up To 80 Million People In 36 Hours. And This’s Due To Factors Like World Population Growth, Poor Access To Basic Health Services, Increases In International Travel And Migration, Travel Time Anywhere Being Less Than 36Hrs, Global Warming, And Dense Urbanization ETC

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A Lost 8th Continent, Greenland-sized, Has Been Discovered, Subducted 1000 Miles Under Europe. The Continent, Called “Greater Adria,” Is Said To Be The Fifth Continent Formed From Gondwana, An Offspring Of Supercontinent Pangea. Greater Adria Is Said To Have Slide Under Europe About 120 Mya, Forming Mountain Belts In What’s Now 30 European Countries.

Astronauts, For The First Time, Made Cement In Space At The International Space Station. The Cement Produced In Space Seems To Be More Porous (A Function Of Strength) Than That Created On Earth. However, This Could Be Considered A Milestone As the Cement Could Help, Using Local Raw From Astronomical Bodies, Build Infrastures On Mars Or Moon.