Anika Reyansh

Scientists May Have Discovered A Method That Would Enable The Tooth Enamel To Be Repaired. The Method, The Ability To Produce Tiny Clusters Of Calcium Phosphate, Would Allow The Enamel To Be Reproduced And Grown Back. And The Cool Part Is That The Materials Needed For This Are Cheap And Can Be Prepared On Large Scales.

Scientists…

Researchers At The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Have Discovered A New Type Of Bloodsucking Leech, Since 1975 In North America, Dubbed “Macrobdella Mimicus,” In Charles County, 50 Miles Outside Washington, D.C. The Olive-Green Leech Is Said To Have Three Jaws With 56 to 59 Teeth In Each. Like Leech Is Not Gross Enough!

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An Extensive Sheet Of Pumice, A Very Light And Porous Volcanic Rock, From An Underwater Volcano, Near Tonga, Is Floating Towards Australia. The Pumice Sheet, About The Size Of Washington, D.C. (58 Square Miles), Could Act As A Medium For Carrying Marine Organisms To Replenish Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Cool!

Great Barrier Reef…

Sickle Cell Monitoring By Microscopically Looking At The Cells From A Blood Sample Is Majorly Flawed Because It’s Time-consuming, And Cannot Monitor In Real-Time Changes Associated With Sickled Cells. The New Method Of Using Microfluidics-Based Electrical Impedance Sensor, Via Conductive Properties Of Cells, May Remove These Flaws.

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Ebola Seems To Have An Experimental Vaccine That Prevents People From Contracting The Disease. But For The First Time, People That Already Have The Disease Could Be Cured With Either An Antiviral Drug Called Remdesivir Or One Of Three Drugs, Like ZMapp–A Standard For Ebola Outbreak Treatment, Which Uses Monoclonal Antibodies.

Ebola…

It’s Fortunate That The Oil Stored In The Sunken World War II Era Ship, Called Coimbra, Did Not Completely Spill Into The Ocean. The US Coast Guard, To Prevent Any Chance Of That Happening, Has Recovered More Than 450,000 Gallons Of Oil From The Shipwreck Off New York Coast. Coimbra Is A British Supply Ship Sunk By German U-Boat Torpedo In January 1942.

It Is Common Knowledge That Bats Use Echolocation, The Application Of Sound And Echoes, To Locate Their Prey In The Dark. But How Do Bats Find Preys That Remain Silent And Motionless To Avoid Being Detected? The Bats, According To A New Study, Use Leaves As A Sound Reflective Mirror To Locate These Motionless Preys.

Bats use leaves…

Another Alcohol Impact Contradiction. A Study Of 17,059 U.S. Adults, BTW 1988-1994, Indicates That Moderate And Heavy Drinkers Of Alcohol Were 2 And 2.5 Times, Respectively, Likely To Develop Severe Hypertension Than Nondrinkers. Hypertension Is A Risk Factor For Cardiovascular Disease. Abstinence From Drinking Is Recommended.

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This May Be A Ground Breaking Record For A Great White Shark. Fishermen, In Taiwan, Caught And Killed A Humongous, 15 Ft Long, Great White Shark With A Record-Breaking Number Of 14 Pups Growing Inside Of The Shark. The number Of Shark Pups, In Great Whites, Average Between 2 To 10, And They Grow By Feeding On Unfertilized Eggs.

Scientists Have Reversed Time To A Fraction Of A Second Into The Past. Finally, The Dr. Who Time Travel Is Now A Reality! Just Kidding!! This Was Only Done In Theory Using A Quantum Computer. It’s Like A Video Being Played In Reverse. This, Though Theoretical, Could Help Improve Some Medical Imaging Technologies And Quantum Computers.