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The Antarctic Desert, Categorized As A Cold Desert, Is The World’s Largest Desert Spanning ~ 5.48 Million Square Miles. The Arctic Desert, Also A Cold Desert, Is The Second Largest At ~ 5.37 Million Square Miles. The Sahara Desert, Classified As A Hot And Dry Desert, Is The Largest Non-Polar Desert, Covering ~3.55 Million Square Miles.

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Researchers, For The First Time, Detected DNA & RNA Nucleobases In Meteorites That Fell To Earth In The Last 100 Yrs, Using A DNA Extraction Method That’s 100X More Sensitive Than Methods Used Since The 1960s. And The Nucleobases– Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, Guanine, And Uracil, May Indicate That The Ingredient For Life Came From Space.

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The Earth’s Core Is Cooling At A Faster Rate Than Previously Thought. A New Study Estimates A 1.5X Higher Bulk Thermal Conductivity At Core-Mantle Boundary Than The Conventional Value, Which Could Imply A Faster Earth Cooling Process That Could Make The Earth Unhabitable And Tectonically Inactive Millions Or Billions Of Years From Now.

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Researchers Have Found The First Direct Evidence Of A Never Before Seen Mineral That Forms In The Mantle. The Mineral, Davemaoite, Is Said To Be A High Pressure-Temperature Form Of Wollastonite, A Commonly Found Mineral. The Davemaoite Was Discovered, Using Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction, In A Botswana Diamond, Which Formed In The mantle.

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Scientists Briefly Created A Rare Diamond To Test Its Hardness. The Stiffness Of The Artificial Hexagonal Diamond, Lonsdaleite, Suggest It Is 58% Stronger Than Diamond, Setting A New Record For The Hardest Known Material. Advances Are Needed To Stabilize The Production Of Lonsdaleite, Also Found In Meteorite Crater Rocks, For Its Uses.

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Researchers May Have Discovered A Meteorite Derived From A Planet At Its Early Stage Of Formation. The Meteorite, Named Erg Chech 002 (EC 002), Said To Be Older Than Earth, Was Found In The Sahara Desert. EC 002 Is The “Oldest Known Extra-Terrestrial Lava” On Earth And May Offer Glimpse Of Planetary Formation In The Early Solar System.

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Natural Diamond Form From Carbon, ~150 km Deep In The Earth, Under High Temperature And Pressure. And They Take Billion Of Years To Form. And Yes, Synthetic Diamond Have Been Created In Labs Since The 1940s. But Researchers In Australia, In What May Be A First, Were Able To Create Diamond In Minutes Under Room Temperature. Cool!

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Scientists Believe That The Ingredients For Life Was Brought To Earth Via Meteorites. Could This Discovery Of The First Protein From Outerspace, Which Scientists Claim To Have Found In Two Meteorite Samples, The Allende Meteorite (Found In Mexico In 1969) And The Acfer 086 Meteorites (Found In Algeria In 1990), Support The Claim?

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The Oldest Material On Earth Has Been Discovered. The Material, Dust Grains, Found In A Meteorite That Fell In Australia In 1969, Is Said To Be As Much As 7.5 Billion Years Old. The Dust Grains Are Flung Into Space, When Stars That Predated Our Solar System Die, To Be Incorporated Into New Stars, Planets, Moons, And Meteorites.

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Popular Harvard Geneticist, George Church is Conceptualizing A Dating App, Which He Hopes To Use In Creating A Healthier Society. Hopefully, By People Placing Emphasis On Their DNA Compatibility, For Partner Selection, To Help Eliminate Hereditary Diseases. But Again, There’s That Thing Called “Love,” And Sequencing Of Everyone’s Genome.

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Scientists Have Discovered A Meteorite Containing A New Mineral That Has Never Being Found In Nature. The Meteorite Was Found By The Road Side In Australia. The New Mineral, Called Edscottite, Is Said To Come From A Rock Formed In The Core Of Another Planet, Which Was Destroyed In An Ancient Collision.

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So Many Dating Apps Abound Every Where. And Some of These Dating Apps Match Folks Based On Some Criteria, Like What They Hate. A New App, ” Called Digs,” Is Being Launched In Maimi That Will Match People Who Love Dogs. This Is Not Fair Because I Can Sense The Cats Being Left Out.

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The Amount Of Water Subducted Along Plate Boundary, According To Scientists, Using Seismic Waves From Earthquakes In the Mariana Trench, Has Been Determined To Be 3 Times The Amount Initially Thought. But The Baffling Part Of This Find Is That All The Subducted Water Cannot Be Accounted For As What Goes Down Should Come Up?

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Scientists Have Discovered Quadrillion Tons Of Diamond, 90-150 Miles, Below The Earth Surface In An Inverted Mountain Structure Called Craton. So, Good Luck Getting It! The Discovery Was Made When The Velocity Of Sound Through The Craton, During A Seismic Activity, Was Identical To The Experimented Velocity Of Sound Through Diamond Rock.

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A New Form Of Water Ice, Ice-VII, Was Discovered In Diamonds That Formed 400 Miles Beneath The Earth Surface, In The Mantle. The Scientists Were Interested In Looking For Evidence Of Water Trapped Deep In The Earth When They Made The Discovery Using X-Ray. Ice-VII, With Cubic Shaped Atoms, Has Now Been Recognized As A New Mineral

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The Controversy Surrounding Whether Anti-depressant Drugs Work Has Been Put To Rest. Recent Study Has Indicated That Common Anti-depressant Drugs Are Effective At Lifting Moods And Helping People With Depression. Hopefully, This Resolves Any Doubt Regarding Depressant Medications.

Anti-depressants: Major study finds they work – BBC…