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Ashleigh Barty Has Become The First Indigenous Australian, In 41 Years, To Win The Wimbledon Women’s Singles Title. Barty Is The Second Australian To Win It After Her Mentor, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Won It In 1971 And 1980. Barty, A Junior Wimbledon Champion In 2011, Also Successfully Played Professional Cricket For The Brisbane Heat.

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Scientists Have Revived Tiny Organisms That Were Frozen During The Late Pleistocene Epoch. The Creatures, Known As Bdelloid Rotifers Or Wheel Animals, And Said To Have Existed For About 50 Million Years, Were Frozen In The Arctic For 24,000 Years. The Organisms, Once Thawed, Began Reproducing Asexually, Creating Clones That Were Their Genetic Duplicates.

A Blind Man Had His Eyesight Partially Restored, In A First Of Such Successful Treatment In Human Using Optogenetic Therapy And Engineered Goggles. The 58-Year-Old Man, For 40 Years, Was Afflicted With A Neurodegenerative Eye Disease, Retinitis Pigmentosa, Which Changes How The Retina Responds To Light, Which Could Lead To Total Blindness.

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Phil Mickelson Has Made History As The Oldest Golfer To Win A Golf Major. He Was 50 Years, 11 Months, 8 Days When He Won The 2021 PGA Championship On 5/23/2021. This Win Implies A Total Of 29 Golfers Aged 40 And Above Have Won The Golf Major A Sum Total Of 39 Times. Mickelson Has 6 Major Golf Championships, Winning All But The US Open.

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Dean Du Plessis, Born With Tumors Behind Both Retinas, Has Become The First Visually Impaired Commentator To Cover International Cricket. He Developed His Skills Via A Lifetime Of Listening To Cricket And His Ability To Recognise People By Sound, Touch, And Smell, Enabling The 44-Year-Old Zimbabwean To Become A Successful Broadcaster.

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A Lone Male Duck, Known As A Common Pochard Was Spotted For The First Time In British Columbia. And There Is Speculation That This May Be The First Time That This Wild Bird Has Been Spotted In Canada. The Bird Is Said To Be Native To Europe And Asia And Usually Migrates South Of The 2 Continents For The Winter.

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Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Researchers Have Released The Most Detailed, And The First Time Polarized-Light Image Of A Black Hole , In Messier 87 Galaxy, Showing Magnetic Fields Behavior At The Very Edge Of A Black Hole. The EHT’s Data Is Key To Understanding How Magnetic Fields Allow Black Holes To ‘Eat’ Matter And Launch Powerful Jets.

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Archeologist, For The First Time, Have Unearthed A Unique Carriage For Festive Activities In Ancient Pompeii. The Four-wheeled Carriage, Comprising Iron, Bronze, And Tin, Was Found, ~700 Metres North Of Ancient Pompeii Walls, Near The Stables Of An Ancient Villa At Civita Giuliana. This Discovery Will Shed More Light On Ancient Pompeii.

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Scientists May Have Found The Most Distant And Oldest Galaxy In The Universe, Pending Confirmation. Researchers Determined The Distance Of The Galaxy, Called GN-z11, Based On The Galaxy’s Ultraviolet Light Shift Towards The Spectrum Red End. This Research May Support Previous Studies Of GN-z11 As The Farthest Detectable Galaxy–~13.4 BLY.

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Researchers, In China, May Have Developed A Photonic Quantum Computer, Called Jiuzhang, Which Demonstrates Quantum Supremacy. The Computer Is Said To Do, In 200 Seconds, Calculations That Will Take Conventional Computers 2.5 Billion Yrs To Complete. Only Google’s Sycamore Computer, Until Now, Has Been Able To Achieve Quantum Supremacy.

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Google Parent Company Lab, Deep Mind, Has Built A Computer, Called Alpha Fold, Which Can Rapidly (In Hours Or Minutes As Against Months/Decades) Predict The 3-D Shape Of A Protein, As The Shape Defines What A Protein Can Do. This Breakthrough Could Accelerate The Development Of New Medicines And The Understanding Of The Body And Diseases.

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Researchers, By Pinpointing The Location And Velocity Of ~99 Specific Points On The Most Accurate Map Of The Milky Way Yet, Are Indicating That The Earth Is ~25,800 LY From A Supermassive Black Hole Called Sagittarius A, Located At The Center Of Our Galaxy. This Implies The Earth Is 2,000 LY Closer To The Blackhole Than Originally Thought.

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Many Speculations Are Surrounding The Btw 10 -12 Feet Mysterious Metallic Monolith Found During A Routine Helicopter Flight Assisting The Wildlife Dept. The Monolith, Spotted Deep In The Desert In Rural Utah, Has, Of Course, Being Speculated To Be Alien, Or Government Or NASA Secret Experiment. But Some Think It Was Placed There By An Artist.

Lego Has Set A New Record By Creating The Largest Lego Structure Comprising 9,036 Pieces Of Lego Bricks. The Structure, A Version Of The Colosseum, Measures 10.5 Inches High By 20.5 Inches Wide And Is 23.5 Inches Deep. The Colosseum Has About 1,500 More Pieces Than The Previous Record-Holder– The 7,541-Piece Star Wars Millennium Falcon.

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A Team of Researchers Have Engineered A New Soil That Could Advance The Scope Of Agriculture. A Gram Of The Soil Is Said To Be Able To Extract 3-4 Grams Of Water From The Atmosphere, Especially In cool Humid Periods At Night, And Distribute The Water To Plants During The Day. This Innovation May Expand Farming To Uninhabitable Lands.

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The US FDA Has Approved The First Treatment, Remdesivir, For Covid-19. Remdesivir Is Sold Under The Brand Name Veklury, Which Has Been Used Under Emergency Use Authorization Since May 2020. Remdesivir Is “Indicated For Adults And Pediatric Patients (12 Yrs And Older And Weighing At least 40 kg) Treatment Requiring Hospitalization.”

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Have A Song Stuck In Your Head That You Can’t Seem To Remember The Name Or Lyrics? Well, The Google Search App Can Now Help With That. All You Need Do Is “Tap The Mic Icon Or Use The Google Assistant, And Say “What’s This Song?” Or Click The “Search A Song” Button. And Then Start Humming For 10-15 Seconds” To Find The Song. Pretty Cool!

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A Wolf-Rayet Star System Has Been Spotted 8000 LY From Earth In Our Galaxy, The Milky Way. The Star System, Called Apep, Comprises 2 Massive Stars ( Each ~10 To 15X More Massive Than Our Sun) Orbiting Each Other. Wolf-Rayet Stars Are So Rare That 1 Out Of 100 Million Massive Stars Can Become One As A Star Approaches The End Of Its Life.

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Computer Modeling And Field Study Is Indicating That The Greenland Ice Sheet Is Losing Ice At An Alarming Rate. And The Ice Loss, In Recent Years, Is Said To Be The Highest When Compared To The Past 12,000 Years. Researchers Estimate That The Ice Loss Could Lead To Between 2 – 10 cm Rise In Sea Level By The End Of This Century.

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President Barack Obama And Wife Michelle, According To A Poll Survey Of 45,000 People In 42 Countries And Territories By YouGov, Were Ranked As The Most Admired Man And Woman In The World. The 2nd, And 3rd Positions For Women Went To Angelina Jolie, Queen Elizabeth II, And Men, Bill Gates, And Chinese President Xi Jinping, Respectively.

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