Ken Parth

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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The USA FDA Has Approved A Twice Daily Pill For People With Aggressive Breast Cancer, Also Known As HER2-Positive Breast Cancer, Which Spreads In The Body Including The Brain And Is Tough To Treat. Though A Welcome News For ~50,000 People Diagnosed With This Cancer, It Comes With A Hefty Price Tag Of $18,500/Month Without Insurance.

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Greenland, The Largest Island In The World With A Diverse Population Of 57,000 And A Limited Health Care System, Is Now Said To Be The Only Country In The World With No Active Case Of Coronavirus. And This Is After 11 Patients Who Tested Positive For The Virus Are Now Recovering. Other Countries Could Learn From Them?

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Coronavirus Is A Force To Reckon With, Instigating The US Government To Sign, On The 3/27/2020, The Largest Bailout Package, Worth $2tn (£1.7tn), To Mitigate Any Economic And Health Set Backs That Would Have Been Of Historic Proportions. Part Of The Package Will Give $1,200 To All Americans Earning Less Than $75,000/Yr And $500/Child.

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It Started From Wuhan, China, Then Escalated To Italy. And Now The United States, The Third Most Populous Country And One Of The World’s Most Developed, Unfortunately, Is Now Said To Lead The World In Confirmed Cases Of The Coronavirus, With At Least 81,321 Infected People, Including More Than 1000 Deaths—Higher Than Any Other Country.

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Recent Data From Some Of The Hardest-Hit Countries, Like Italy, China And South Korean, Seem To Show That The Covid-19 Is Killing More Men Than Women, And Researchers Don’t Know Why. Researchers Discovered This By Studying The Data To Understand Who Is More Vulnerable To The Disease, And How To Protect Them.

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The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Has Been Labeled A Pandemic By WHO. COVID-19 Has Resulted In Both The Loss Of Lives And Businesses, With The Panic Keeping Consumers And Business People Away From Stores And Conferences Respectively. Even Schools Are Shutting Down. Clean Hygiene Practices Help. But Hopefully, A Cure Is Discovered Soon.

The Biggest Explosion In The Universe Has Been Found In The Ophiuchus Galaxy Cluster, Which’s 390 Million LY From Earth. The Explosion Is Said To Have Created Space Capable Of Fitting, In A Row, 15 Milky Way Galaxies. The Source Of The Explosion Is Said To Be A Super Massive Blackhole Contained In One Of Ophiuchus’ Large Galaxies.

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The USA FDA Has Approved The World’s First Portable Bedside Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Machine, Which Is 20X Cheaper Than The Current Model, Consumes 35X Less Power And Weighs 10X Lighter. The Machine Will Go Into Commercial Shipment In Summer, 2020. 85 Stroke Patients Recieve Low Field Bedside MRI Within 7 Days Of Symptom Onset.

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AI, In The World’s First, Has Developed A Drug, DSP-1181, Which May Treat Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. DSP-1181 Is Now At Phase 1 Clinical Trials After 12 Months (Takes ~5 Years From Synthesizing A Drug To Trials). This’s Cool As AI, In The Future, May Make Drug Development Faster, Cheaper And More Efficient.

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The World’s Oldest Intact Shipwreck Was Found. And Now, The World’s Largest (110 Feet Long) Classical Shipwreck Has Been Discovered, At 60m Depth, In Eastern Mediterranean. The Ship, Which Dates Back Btw 100 BCE And 100 CE, Is Said To Comprise Amphorae–Large Terracotta Pots Used In The Roman Empire For Transporting Wine And Olive Oil.

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Most Of Us Know That Crows Are Smart And Can Hold Grudges. And Now, According To A Recent Study, Crows, Like The New Caledonian Crows, Can Delay Gratification As Well As 3 to 5-Year-Old Kids. And The Degree To Which They Would Delay Gratification Depend On The Quality And Visibility Of Future Rewards.

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Researchers May Have Discovered A Way To Stop The Rabies Virus From Shutting Down Key Parts Of The Immune System Responses. The Discovery, According To The Scientists, Could Allow For The creation Of A New, Safe And Effective Live Vaccine. Rabies Kills Almost 60,000 People Each Year, Mostly Affecting Poor And Rural Communities.

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Google Is Stating That It Has Built A 53-bit Quantum Computer, Named Sycamore, Which Took 200 Seconds To Solve A Problem That Would Take The World’s Fastest Supercomputer 10,000 Years To Solve. And This Technological Development Could Open Future Doors In, E.G., Machine Learning, Medicine And Better Battery Design. Cool!

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A Recent Study, Contrary To Hypes Artificial Intelligence (AI) Is Outdoing Medical Experts, Is Indicating That They’re About The Same In Disease Diagnoses From Images. AI Is Said To Correctly Detect Disease States 87% Of The Time To 86% For Health Experts. And AI Correctly Gave The All-Clear 93% Of The Time To 91% For Health Experts.

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Scientists May Have Accidentally Discovered An Unusual Property Of The Spider’s Web, Which Could Enable Its Use In Weather Sensors, Smart Textiles And the Creation Of Robotics Muscles. This Property, In Addition To Web’s Toughness And Resilience, Is The Web’s Ability To Supercontract /Shrink And Twist In Response To Humidity Changes.

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A Bird, Cardinal, Has Been Observed To Be One-Sided Male And The Other Side, Female—A Condition called “Gynandromorph.” This Sexual Split, Though Not Yet Confirmed In The Bird, Has Been Reported In Reptiles, Butterflies, And Crustaceans. Scientists Are Curious As To How This Would Make Them Different From Conventional Cardinals.

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