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Earth Now Has A Temporary New Mini Moon, Called 2020 CD3, Which Measures About 6 Feet To 11 Feet Across And With Orbit That Suggests It Entered Earth’s Orbit About 3 Years Ago. This Is The Second Asteroid To Be Captured By Earth’s Gravity After An Asteroid Named “2006 RH120” Was Captured In June 2006 And Stayed Until Around September 2007.

More Advances On Cancer Treatment. More Than A Thousand Scientists, In 37 Countries, After More Than A Decade, Have Now Completed 99% Of “The 100,000-Piece Of Jigsaw Puzzles” That Is Cancer. This Feat Would Enable Cancer Treatment To Be Tailored To Each Patients’ Unique Tumour Or Help In Developing Ways For Catching Cancer Earlier. Nice!

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Researchers, In What Is Known As Antigenic Imprinting, Have Stated That The First Type Of Early Childhood Influenza Virus That One Is Exposed To Dictates One’s Ability To Fight The Flu For The Rest Of One’s Live. This Could Help Access Risk, At Any Given Year, Based On One’s Age And The Dominant Virus At Birth.

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Researchers Have Discovered A T-Cell With A New Type Of T-Cell Receptor (TCR) That Recognizes A Molecule, MR1, Which Appears On Surfaces Of Both Healthy And Many Cancer Cells. But The TCR Equipped T-Cells, However, Kill Only Cancer Cells Of Any Type With MR1. Researchers Are Hopeful The Treatment Will Be Ready In A Few Years.

Scientis…

The Oldest Known Asteroid Impact Crater, “Yarrabubba Crater,” May Have Been Discovered In Australia. The Impact, Dated To 2.229 Byr, Possibly Ended The Snow Ball Earth Glacial Condition Via Water Vapour, A Green House Gas, Hurtled Into The Atmosphere. Another Implication Of This Discovery Is That Other Older Craters May Still Exist.

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Interesting To Find Living Fishes That Walk. Scientists, While Sampling The DNA Of The Only Known Walking Shark Species To Estimate When They Evolved, Found Four New Shark Species. The Youngest Of The Walking Shark Is Said To Have Evolved < 2 Mya, Which’s Fast By Evolutionary Scale, Majorly Contradicting Belief That Sharks Evolve Slowly.

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Researchers, Comparing The Behavioral Differences Btw Wolves And Dogs, Made A Shocking Discovery That Wolves Can Also Play Fetch When They Observed 3 Wolf Pups Retrieve A Ball For A Complete Stranger. This Is Because It’s Been Hypothesized That The Ability To Understand Human Cues, Like Those Required For Fetch, Arose In Domesticated Dogs >15,000 YA.

10 Years To The End Of 2019 Has Been Confirmed By Three Major Agencies: Nasa, Noaa, And The UK Met Office To Be The Warmest Decade On Record. And The Main Culprit For This Temperature Record Is The Carbon Emission from Human Activities. Scientists Are Also Indicating The Year 2019 To Be One Of The 5 Warmest Years, From 2015, On Record.

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Evidence Of The World Oldest Forest, A Fossilized Tree Root Dated To ~386 MYA, Was Discovered In An Abandoned Quarry In Cairo, NY, ~40 Miles South Of Albany. The Forest Is Said To Be 2-3 Myrs Older Than The Previously Discovered Forest In Gilboa, NY. This Discovery Provides A Snapshot Of Earth’s Evolution From No Forest To Being Forested.

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The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) On Thursday, 12/12/2019, Approved A 3 Digits Suicide Prevention Hotline Number, 988, To Help Improve Mental Health Support, Reduce Stigma, Save Lives, and Ease The Pressure On The 911 Number. Some Folks Also Want Texting Capability Added To The Hotline For Young People Who Seem To Prefer It.

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