Ken Yun

The Scientists At Penn State, To Reduce >141 GL Of Water Used To Flush Toilets/Day, Have Created An Ultra-Slippery Toilet Coating That Can Cut Water Quantity Required To Flush Excrement By 90%. It Also Prevents Bacteria Build Up In Toilet Bowls. The Coating, Which Can Be Affected By Urine, Would Require Reapplication After 50 Flushes.

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An Ape Species, Danuvius Guggenmosi, Now Indicates That Human Ancestors Stood Upright Millions Of Years Earlier Than Thought, Based On The Discovered Male Ape Fossil, With Resemblance To Human Bones, Which Lived ~12 Mya In Now Southern Germany. Previous Upright Standing Apes Records, From Crete and Kenya, Date Back To 6 Mya.

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In A Bid To Enhance Computer-Human Interaction, A Team Of French Human-Computer Interaction Researchers Have Created Something That Might Give You The Creeps. They Call It “Skin-On,” A Mobile Case Made With Synthetic Human Skin. Skin-On Is Said To Respond To, For Example, Tickling, Poking, Stretching, Grabbing, And Pinching. Hmm!

Researchers, For The First Time, Have Identified Food Types Fed To Prehistoric Babies. They Discovered This When They Found Milk, From Ruminant Animals Like Sheep, Goats, And Cows, In Vessels, Used As Baby Bottles, Dating Back > 7,000 Years. Feeding Babies Animal Milk Is Said To Increase Fertility In Women, Resulting In More Births.

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For The First Time, Scientists May Have Reconstructed How Mysterious Early Humans, Denisovans, Look Like Via DNA Methylation Data–A Process That Relies On Extracting Information From Gene Activity Patterns, Rather Than DNA Sequences. Data Showed Denisovans Partly Resembled Neanderthals And Modern Humans, But With Some Unique Features.

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Astronauts, For The First Time, Made Cement In Space At The International Space Station. The Cement Produced In Space Seems To Be More Porous (A Function Of Strength) Than That Created On Earth. However, This Could Be Considered A Milestone As the Cement Could Help, Using Local Raw From Astronomical Bodies, Build Infrastures On Mars Or Moon.

Researchers At The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Have Discovered A New Type Of Bloodsucking Leech, Since 1975 In North America, Dubbed “Macrobdella Mimicus,” In Charles County, 50 Miles Outside Washington, D.C. The Olive-Green Leech Is Said To Have Three Jaws With 56 to 59 Teeth In Each. Like Leech Is Not Gross Enough!

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Sickle Cell Monitoring By Microscopically Looking At The Cells From A Blood Sample Is Majorly Flawed Because It’s Time-consuming, And Cannot Monitor In Real-Time Changes Associated With Sickled Cells. The New Method Of Using Microfluidics-Based Electrical Impedance Sensor, Via Conductive Properties Of Cells, May Remove These Flaws.

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It’s Fortunate That The Oil Stored In The Sunken World War II Era Ship, Called Coimbra, Did Not Completely Spill Into The Ocean. The US Coast Guard, To Prevent Any Chance Of That Happening, Has Recovered More Than 450,000 Gallons Of Oil From The Shipwreck Off New York Coast. Coimbra Is A British Supply Ship Sunk By German U-Boat Torpedo In January 1942.

Another Alcohol Impact Contradiction. A Study Of 17,059 U.S. Adults, BTW 1988-1994, Indicates That Moderate And Heavy Drinkers Of Alcohol Were 2 And 2.5 Times, Respectively, Likely To Develop Severe Hypertension Than Nondrinkers. Hypertension Is A Risk Factor For Cardiovascular Disease. Abstinence From Drinking Is Recommended.

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The Yellow-Bellied Sea Snake, Hydrophis Platurus, Is The Only Reptile In The Order Squamata That Lives On The Open Sea, And The Snake Does Not Drink Sea Water. So, How Does It Quench Its Thirst? Well, According To Scientists, It Does So From The Lens Of Rainwater That Floats On The Sea Surface.

How do sea snakes in salt water get a…

An Easy Way To Access One’s Risk Of Heart Disease Has Been Determined, And It’s Via Something Commonly Done. Doctors, Studying 1,104 Fire Fighters Over A 10-Year period, Have Determined That Folks Who Can Do Greater Than 40 Pushups Have 96% Lower Risks Of Heart Disease Compared To Those Who Completed Less Than 10 Pushups.

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Interesting Timeline For SpaceX To Begin Venturing To Mars. A Rocket With Cargo Is Sent In 2022 To “Confirm Water Resources, Identify Hazards, And Put In Place Initial Power, Mining, And Life Support Infrastructure.” I Suppose All of These Will Be Done Remotely, Before Sending Humans In 2024. A Person Trip Could Cost Less Than $500K.

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A New Dating App Has Been Created For Cows And Bulls In The U.K. The App, Called Tudder, Like Tinder, Allows Farmer Or Breeders To Swipe To The Left Or Right To Either Accept Or Reject Potential Breeding Partners. Let’s Not Stop There, What About Other Animals Like Dogs And Cats?

Tudder: 'Tinder for cows' matches livestock with…

Researchers May Have Created A New Way To 3-D Print Objects. The Set-Up Called The Replicator, From Star Trek, Uses A Projector To Generate An Object From A Jelly-Like Liquid Whose Molecules Are Sensitive To Light. Many Applications Exist For This Product Including Being Able To 3-D Print Around Existing Objects.

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How Many Folks Saw The Bright Flash During The 21st Of January, 2019 Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse? Well, That Was A Meotorite Impact On The Surface Of The Moon. Anyway, The Moon Is Accustomed To Such Impacts, Which Is Responsible For The 140 New Craters/Year On The Surface Of The Moon.

The Global Positioning System (GPS) Uses The Magnetic Poles To Navigate. Unfortunately, The Earth’s Magnetic North Pole Doesn’t Stay In A Fixed Location. Right Now, It’s Moving From Canada To Siberia, Which Requires Scientists To Urgently Update The Navigational Magnetic Model, To Account For The Shift, For Accurate Navigation.

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Most Folks May Already Be Aware Of The Connection Between Sugary Beverages And Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) . But It Is Always Great When There Are Data To Back It Up. A New Study Of 3,000 African-American Men And Women Show That Those Who Drank The Most Sugary Beverage Where 61% Most Likely To Develop CKD.

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Check These Statistics Out: “Participants With High Levels Of Anxiety And Depression Were Found To Have A 65% Increased Odds For A Heart Condition, 64% For Stroke, 50% For High Blood Pressure And 87% For Arthritis.” However, The Study Seems Skewed Because It Was Conducted On 15,418 Retirees, With Average Age Of 68 Over A 4 Year Period.

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Always Seeking A Second Opinion On What A Text Message, From Someone, Means? Then You May Be In Luck As There May Be An App For That. The MEI App, According To The Developers, Is Said To Used 5 Personality Algorithm To Help One Interpret The Real Meaning Behind A Text Message. For Real!?