Cindy Alverez

Simple Life Forms, Like Bacteria And Blue-Green Algae, Did Exist During The Precambrian Era (~4,6 Byrs– 541 Myr Ago), Before More Complex Life Existed. But A New Questionable Study, From Canada, Is Indicating That More Complex And Probably The Oldest Animal Life Form, Some Sponge, May Have Existed ~890 Myr Ago During The Precambrian Era.

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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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Researchers May Have Discovered, In 2007, A New Dinosaur Species, Said To Be The Largest Dinosaur Ever Found In Australia. The Dinosaur, Called Australotitan Cooperensis Or “The Southern Titan,” Is 6.5m Tall And As Long As A basketball Court. Australotitan, Closely Related To 3 Sauropod Species, Is One Of The World’s 15 Largest Dinosaurs.

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Researchers May Have Discovered 2 Theia Remains Inside The Earth’s Mantle. Theia Is Said To Have Collided With Earth 4.5 Byr Ago, Knocking Off The Rock That Formed The Moon. Theia Remains, Supported By Isotopic Evidence And Modeling, Are Said To Be In The Large Low-Shear Velocity Provinces, Probably Beneath W. Africa And The Pacific Ocean.

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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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Geologists Have, For The First Time, Animated How The Earth’s Plates Moved Relative To Each Other Over The Last Billion Years. The Geologists Spent 4 Years To Create The Animation, Using Paleomagnetism And Current Tectonic Plate Data. The Animation May Help Explain How Earth Became Habitable For Complex Creatures.

The Gaboon Viper (Bitis Gabonica) Is The Heaviest Venomous But Placid-Natured African Snake, And The Largest Member Of The Bitis Genus Of Vipers. The Snake Is Said To Hold The World’s Record For Having The Longest Fangs (~5cm), Which Can Inject ~2 Grams Of Venom Per Bite, The Largest Yield Of All Venomous Snakes.

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Sesame Street Has Added Two New Puppets, Noor And Aziz, To Feature In A Series Of Educational Videos That Will Deliver Early Years Of Education To Rohingya Children Living In The Worlds Largest Refugee Camp, Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar. Noor And Aziz, Six-Year-Old Twins, Are Adapted To Be The First Media Characters To Look And Sound Like Rohingya Kids.

With The Rising Cases Of Coronavirus, Some States Have Created A Coronavirus Notification App That Can Send Alerts, Via Bluetooth, When A Person Is Close To Someone Infected. Now, Unless One Is Masked-Up, The App Only Informs You After Exposure. But, At Least, You Now Know To Take Precautions To Avoid Infecting Others. Ingenious!

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SpaceX Crew Dragon, In A Fully Operational Mission, Made History By Being The First Privately Owned Spacecraft, Built By SpaceX, To Deliver, On Monday, November 16th, 2020, A 4-Person Crew For A 6 Months Long Stay At The International Space Station (ISS). SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Completed It First Test Mission To ISS In March Of 2019.

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Researchers Study People With Similar Symptoms To Find A Biological Explanation For The Symptoms. But Now, Researchers Working Backward, Have Discovered A Deadly Genetic Disease In Men, “VEXAS,” By Studying “2,500 People’s Genes For Variations That Could Be Linked To Wide-Ranging Symptoms Of Their Undiagnosed Inflammatory Conditions.”

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A Rare Puppy Dog With Green Fur Was Born, In A Five-Dog Litter, At A Farm On The Mediterranean Island Of Sardinia. The Puppy, Named Pistachio Because Of The Green Fur, Is Believed To Be Green Because It Probably Made Contact With A Green Pigment Called Biliverdin While In The Womb. Unfortunately, The Green Fur Has Began To Fade.

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Researchers Are Indicating That The Big Bang Is Not The Beginning Of Our Universe, As There Was Something Before The Big Bang, Which We Will Have In Our Universe Future. Their Notion Is Based On The Existence Of Unexplained Spots Of Electromagnetic Radiation In The Sky (Hawking Points) From Older Universe, Coming Out Of Black Holes.

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Singapore Will Be The First Country In The World To Implement Facial Verification In Its National Identity Scheme, SingPass, To Allow Access To Government Services. Facial Verification, Already In Use In, E.G., Singapore’s Major Banks, And During Student Test, Will Ensure That Persons Requiring Government Services Are Who They Say They Are.

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Researchers, In Australia, Have Found A New Neurotoxin, Called Gympietide, In The Stinging Dendrocnide Tree. The Neurotoxin Is Similiar To The Toxins Produced In Venomous Animals Like Spiders and Cone Snails. The Toxin Is Said To Cause Long-Lasting Excruciating Pain. Researchers Hope The New Toxin Study Helps In Developing Painkillers.

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A Software Engineer, Ian Webster, Inspired By Plate Tectonics, Has Created A Map That Can Enable Anyone To “Time Travel” To The Past, Up to 750 Myrs Ago, To Find The Location Of Modern-Day Landmark Or City, With Associated Location Fossils. This Location Shift Is Because The Continents Have Been Drifting Away And Towards Each Other.

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A Furry Puppy Dog Or Wolf, Discovered In Siberia In 2011, May Have Eaten One Of The Last Woolly Rhinos For Its Last Meal. This Find Is Based On A Hairy Piece Of Tissue Found Preserved In The Canine’s Stomach, Which DNA Test and Dating Determined Belongs To A Woolly Rhinos That Went Extinct ~14,000 Yrs Ago, About The Time The Canine Died.

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