Ken Yun

The First Black-Footed Ferret, Called Elizabeth Ann, An Endangered Animal Native To North America, Was Cloned From Cells That Were Banked In 1988. The Cells Were Developed Into Embryos, Then Implanted Into A Domestic Ferret Surrogate, From Which Ann Was Delivered Via C-Section. This Feat Could Lead To Genetic Diversity For Endangered Species.

A New Study, A First Of Its Kind, Which Focuses On The Health Impact Of Cannabis On Blood Pressure, Heart Rate And Metabolism In Hypertensive Adults That Are 60 Years And Above, Shows That Cannabis May Reduce Blood Pressure In Older Adults. The Study Is Very Pertinent As Older Adults Have Become The Fastest Growing Users Of Cannabis.

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Another History-Making Moment In The US President Joe Biden Administration As Pete Buttigieg, Age 39, And The Former Mayor Of South Bend, Indiana, Will Be The First Openly Gay Person To Be Confirmed To A US Cabinet Post. Pete Was Approved By The US Senate As Transportation Secretary. Congrats to Him And Other Trail Blazers.

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A Snowy Owl Was Spotted In New York City’s Central Park For The First Time In 130 Years. The Snowy Owl, Which Resides In the Arctic Tundra, Has Not Been Seen In New York City Since It Was Last Spotted In The Winter Of 1890. The Owl Has Since Moved On. But Exhibit Of It Can Be Seeing At The American Museum of Natural History.

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Scientists May Have Found The Oldest Known Grizzly Bear In Yellowstone. The Male Bear, Age 34, Was Captured In The Summer Of 2020 And Euthanized After Being Caught Preying On Calves, Probably Due To Its Very Few Teeth–A Sign Of Old Age. Scientists, After Euthanization, Found A “168” Mark On The Lip, Given To The Bear In 1989.

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Mr. Alex Padilla, Age 47, And California Secretary Of State Has Been Selected, By Governor Gavin Newsom, To Fill The Senate Seat Vacated By Vice-President-Elect Kamala Harris. This Selection Is A Big Deal As He Will Be The First Latino To Fill A US Senate Seat In The 170-Year History of California, A State That Is Home To 15 Million Hispanics.

Researchers Have Set A Distance Limit Of 44 km, Via Optical Fibres, For How Far They Can Send Entangled Qubits To Beam/Teleport Quantum Information With More Than 90% Accuracy. This Advancement, Given The Information Transfer Accuracy/Distance In A Blink, Promises a Huge Boosts In Internet Speed, Computational Power, And Network Security.

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Nearly 6,000 Satellites Circle Earth And About 60% Of Them Are Now Space Junk That Could Burn On Re-entry Into the Atmosphere, Creating Tiny Alumina Particles That Will Pollute The Environment. And Because Of This, Researchers Are Contemplating Developing Wooden Satellites, By 2023, That Would Burn Up Without Releasing Polluting Substances.

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The US President-Elect Joe Biden Is Not Letting Off Steam As He Continues To Trail Blaze. He Has Now Chosen A 67-Year-Old Retired General Lloyd Austin As His Defence Secretary. And If Confirmed, General Lloyd Austin Will Be The First African-American To Head The Pentagon. Though There Are Oppositions In Favor Of A Civilian-Controlled Pentagon.

Scientists Have Confirmed That The Potential Water Chemical Signatures Identified In 2009 On The Moon’s Illuminated Surface Is Indeed Water. Researchers Were Able To Confirm This Using A Flying Telescope Operated By NASA And Germany’s Aerospace Center—The Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), Attached To A Boeing 747.

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Shark Allies Are Worried That ~500,000 Sharks Could Be Killed For Their Liver Extracted Squalene, For Use In COVID-19 Vaccine. Squalene Is A Common Ingredient Used In Cosmetics, Malaria And Flu Vaccines. Olive Oil And Sugar Cane, E.G., Are Sustainable Squalene Alternatives, But Shark Is Preferred Because It Cost Less And Yields More.

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Australia’s National Science Agency Is Indicating That Covid-19 Virus Can Infectiously Linger On Some Surfaces Like Bank Notes And Phone Screen For 28 Days. But Their Experiment Seem Flawed And Was Performed In The Dark, As UV Light Is Known To Kill Covid-19 Virus. Moreover, Many Experts Have Thrown Doubt On Real-Life Surface Transmission.

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Researchers May Have Provided The First Proof That Ultraviolet C (UVC) Light, With A Wavelength Of 222nm, Can Effectively Kill SARS-CoV-2. The 222nm UVC Light, Which Is Said To Be Safe Around Humans, Was Found To Kill 99.7% Of SARS-CoV-2 After A 30-Second Exposure, Making It A Possible Disinfectant For Human Occupied Areas.

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This Video Is Very Creepy, Showing Russian Doctors Pulling A 4-Feet-Long Snake From A Woman’s Mouth. The Snake Is Said To Have Slithered Into The Woman’s Mouth While She Slept In Her Yard, Located In Levashi Village In Dagestan, Russia. But How Could One Not Wake Up If Something This Big Is Crawling Into One’s Mouth?

Researchers Are Indicating That The Earth Could Be Partially Responsible For The Rusting Of The Moon. This Denotation Is Based On Haematite (Rust) Found At The Moon’s Poles, And Given That The Moon Has No Oxygen For Rust To Form. And So, A Potential Source Of Oxygen Is Said To Come From The Earth, Transported Via The Earth’s Magnetic Field.

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The Company, Agripolis, In France, Is Turning Rooftops And Abandoned Urban Areas Into Sustainable Low Carbon Footprint Farms, Which May Not Require Soil And Pesticides. The Company Is Also Building The World’s Largest Urban Rooftop Farm, About The Size Of 2 Football Fields, On An Exhibition Center Called Paris Expo Porte De Versailles.

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Scientists Have Been Puzzled By How This Stubby 242-Myr-Old Creature Moved Around. The Reptile, First discovered In 1852 In The Border Btw Switzerland And Italy, Has Very Long Neck 3 Times Its Torso. Scientists Unraveled The Mystery, Via The Reptile’s Skull Reconstruction, Discovering That The Tanystropheus Creature Lived In The Ocean.

The World’s Biggest Nuclear Fusion Project, Being Built In S. France, Costing ~$23.5bn, Has Entered Its 5-Year Assembly Phase–Which When Completed, Can Start Making Super-Hot Plasma Required For Fusion Power. The Project, Built To Show Commercial Viability Of This Cleaner Energy Source, Is Sponsored By, E.G., Japan, China, EU, USA, India.

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Scientists Estimate A Timeline, From The Energy Use Model Of Polar Bears, Which Indicates That If Climate Change Isn’t Curbed Soonest, The Arctic Polar Bears Could Go Extinct By 2100. This’s Because Climate Change Will Reduce Sea Ice, Making It Difficult For Polar Bears To Find Food, Like Seals, For Themselves And Their Cubs.

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Researchers, After Removing Variables Like Population Density, And Covid-19 Response, Discovered That Every 10% Increase In Tuberculosis Vaccination, Using Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), Was Associated With A 10.4% Reduction In Covid-19 Mortality. However, WHO Has Cautioned Against Using BCG, In Combating Covid-19, Until More Is Known.

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