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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…

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 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…

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.

A Study Of Nearly 730,000 Births, Btw 1967-1978, Including 13,800 Twins, From Norway, Is Indicating That Females In Female-Male Twins Are Less Likely To Achieve Social Economic Success Than Females In Female-Female Twins. And This May Be Linked To Prenatal Testosterone In Female-Male Twins. But The Mechanism Is Still Uncertain.

Girls…

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.

A Cure For HIV May Have Been Discovered After A Second Man, In London, Was Found To Be In Remission Of HIV-1. The Cure, A Stem Cell Transplant From Donors Who Carried A Rare Genetic Mutation, CCR5-delta 32, Was First Used On A Berlin Patient 10 YA. Doctors Are, However, Cautious To Confirm The Cure.

HIV cure: London patient might be…

Being Able To See, Like A Superhero, In Infrared, According To Scientists, Was Successfully Achieved In Mice. The Procedure Was Accomplished By Injecting Nanoparticles That Modulate Infrared Wavelengths To What The Eyes Can See. No Residual Effect To Normal Vision Was Detected. This Could Lead To A Method Of Normal Vision Treatment.

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Remember The Giant Sharks In The Jason Statham Movie, Meg (Otodus Megalodon)? Well, A New Study is Indicating That They Did Not Go Extinct, 3.6 Mya, During A Mass Marine Life Extinction Due To A Supernova. But May Have Gone Extinct After Being Primarily Out-Competed By Modern Great White Sharks For Meager Food Resources.

Great White…

A New Report Is Indicating That The Insect Mass Is Declining 8 Times Faster Than Mammals, Birds, And Reptiles (~2.5% /Year). This Rate Could Lead To Their Extinction Within A Century. The Decline Is Mostly Due To Intensive Farming That Utilizes Pesticides, In addition To Climate Change And Urbanization. The Consequences Would Be Deadly.

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