Ken Parth

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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It’s Worrisome That, According To A Recent Study Comprising The Use Of 40 Years Of Satellite Data, The Greenland Ice Sheet Will Continue To Melt Even If Global Warming Is Curbed. And This Melting Ice Sheet, Which Contributes More Than A Millimeter Yearly Rise In Sea Level, Could Lead To The Large Scale Flooding Of Many Coastal Areas.

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President Putin Of Russia Has Claimed His Country To Be The First To Make And Register An Effective COVID-19 Vaccine Called Sputnik-V. But Critics Fear The Vaccine Safety As It Was Not Properly Tested. 20 Countries Have Been Reported To Have Requested Over 1 Billion Vaccine Doses. This’s Great News “If” The Vaccine Is Safe And Effective.

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3,100 Gold Coins, 45 Gold Bars, And More Than 36 Kgs Of Gold Dust, Worth £38million, Were Recovered From The 150-Year S.S. Central America Steamship Wreckage. Bob Evans, Who Was The Chief Scientist On The Voyage To Find The Shipwreck, Found It In 1988. This Find Could Be The Greatest Lost Treasure Recovery In US History?

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More Promising News On The Coronavirus Vaccine: The 1,077 People Trial, Conducted By The University Of Oxford, Showed That Their Vaccine Appears Safe And Triggers An Immune Response That Can Fight Coronavirus. Regardless, Larger Trials Are On The Way To Verify The Vaccine Effectiveness. The UK Has Already Ordered 100 Million Vaccine Doses.

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The First COVID-19 Experimental Drug In The USA, Created By Moderna Inc. And The National Institutes of Health, Is Set To Advance To The Final Stage After Scientists Discovered That It Responded As Expected And Triggered An Immune Response In People. The Final Test Will Begin Around July 27th, 2020 In A 30,000 Person Study. Nice!

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Norway, To Preserve The Buried And Fast Degrading Viking Ships, Has Decided To Quickly Launch The First Viking Ship Excavation Since 1904 (About A Century). The Excavation Will Help Understand The Ships Themselves And The Historic Era As A Whole. 8th And 11th Century Viking Kings And Dignitaries Are Often Buried With Ships Hoisted Ashore.

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Researchers Based On Many Assumptions, Which Makes This Highly Questionable, Are Indicating That There Are 36 Active Communicating Intelligent Alien Civilizations In Our Galaxy, The Milky Way, On 4.5-Billion-Year Old (Or More) Earth-Like Planets Around Sun-Like Stars. And The Average Distance To A Civilization Is ~17,000 Light-Years. Hmm!?

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Researchers, Without Excavation, Using Radar, Mapped An Ancient Roman City Called Falerii Novi, Built ~241 BCE. The City Is Said To Be Half Pompeii Size: ~75 Acres. The Map Depicts Life, >1,300 Years Ago, Filled With Theater Shows, Shopping, Worshipping, Exercising, And Bathing. The Map Will Help Understand Ancient Roman Town Plannings.

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A New Study Is Indicating That Sea Snakes Have Been Relatively Rapidly Adapting Their Vision, Over Less Than 15 Million Years, Which Is Truly Astonishing When Compared To How Other Species Adapt. Sea Snakes Evolve Their Vision So That They Can Adapt To Changing Underwater Light Conditions And Still See Their Prey Deep Underwater.

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The Oldest Evidence That Supports An East Asian Ancestry For Native Americans May Have Been Found In Russia. The Evidence Is The 14,000-Year-Old Tooth Of A Man Who Lived 4500 Kilometers from Beringia. This Find, In addition To Previous Finds, Indicates That Native American Ancestors Occupied A Vast Region Of Northeastern Eurasia.

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Could The Recent Discovery, That Coronavirus Persists In Semen Of Male With Or Recovering From COVID-19, Indicate That COVID-19 Is Sexually Transmittable? Coronavirus Was Found In The Semen Of 16% Of The 38 Male Patients Treated At The Early Onset Of The Pandemic In China. Ebola And Zika Viruses Were Both Found To Spread In Male Semen.

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Could The Drug “Remdesivir” Be The Light At The End Of The Tunnel As The US FDA Plans For Its Emergency-Use Authorization? This Comes As Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director Of The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Has Stated The Promising Effect Of The Drug In Reducing The Recovery Time Of Patients With COVID-19.

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