Antwan Hockaday

US Scientists Found That The Protein Ferritin Light Chain 1 (FTL1) May Drive Brain Aging By Reducing Cognition & Hippocampus Brain Cell (HBC) Connections. Increasing FTL1 In Young Mice Prematurely Aged Their Brains, While Lowering It In Old Mice Reversed Decline. Boosting HBC Metabolism Also Helped. Study Offers Hope To Reverse Brain Aging.

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Researchers Captured A Very Rare 2023 Sighting Of A Maori Octopus Riding The World’s Fastest Shark, A Shortfin Mako, Which Can Reach Speeds Of Up To 50 Km/H (31 Mph). This Unexpected Encounter In New Zealand‘s Hauraki Gulf—Between A Bottom-Dwelling Octopus And A Pelagic Shark—Showcases The Wonders Of The Ocean And Inspires Conservation Efforts.

Recall Magawa, The Tanzanian-Born African Giant Pouched Rat Trained To Detect Landmine In Cambodia? Well, Magawa Is Retiring Having Reached The Retirement Age. Magawa Has Been Working For 5 Years In Cambodia And Has Since Cleared 2.4 Million Square Feet Of Land, And In The Process Found 71 Land Mines And 38 Items Of Unexploded Ordnance.

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Researchers Have Discovered, In Callao Cave, Philippines, The Remains of 3 New Gigantic But Extinct Species Of Cloud Rats (GCR) Said To Be “Twice The Size Of Grey Squirrels.” Cloud Rats Are Nocturnal Animals That Exist Today In The Philippines Forests. And The Rats Live On TreeTops. Humans Are Speculated To Have Led To GCR Extinction.

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Magawa, A 7-Year-Old African Rodent, And One Of The HeroRATs Trained To Detect Landmines Since The 1990s, Has Been Award A Gold Medal, By The UK Veterinary Charity, PDSA, For Its Gallantry In Sniffing Out Landmines And Unexploded Munitions In Cambodia. Magawa Has Sniffed Out 39 Landmines And 28 Unexploded Munitions In His Career.

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