Cindy Alverez

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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