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New Research Suggests That Carbon & Oxygen, Vital For Life, Traveled Outside Our Galaxy Before Forming Us. Dispersed By Supernovae, These Elements Move Via Cosmic Currents Called The ‘circumgalactic Medium,’ Circulating In And Out Of Galaxies, Aiding New Star And Planet Formation. This Implies Our Bodies Are Made Of Intergalactic Travelers.

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The Quadrantid Meteor Shower (MS) Peaked Early Friday, 1/03/25, Marking The First MS Of 2025. The Crescent Moon Had Set Before The Peak, Providing A Clear View Of The Shower. Best Seen From Mid-To-Far Northern Latitudes Before Dawn, It Produced Bright Fireballs, With Up To 120 Meteors/Hr. Debris From Asteroid 2003 EH1 Caused This Dazzling Display.

Scientists Discovered The World’s Largest Coral, Over 100 Ft Long And 300 Years Old, In The SW Pacific Ocean Near Solomon Islands. Unlike A Reef With Many Colonies, This Single Coral Has Grown Continuously For Centuries. Visible From Space, It Contains Nearly 1 Billion Polyps. Despite Resilience, It Remains Vulnerable To Climate Change And Human Threats.

The World’s Most Expensive Fossil And Also The Most Complete Stegosaurus Skeleton Ever Found, Named Apex, Will Be On Display At The American Museum Of Natural History In New York For The Next 4 Years. This 150-Million-Year-Old Fossil, Which Spans 11 Feet (3.3 Meters) Tall And 27 Feet (8.2 Meters) Nose To Tail Was Bought For $44.6 Million.

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Norway’s £36bn Rogfast Tunnel, Opening In 2033, Will Be The World’s Longest & Deepest Road Tunnel At 16.8 Miles & 1,300 Feet Deep, Connecting Randaberg And Bokn. It Will Halve E39 Highway Travel Time From 21 To 11 Hrs, With A 35-Mins Drive Through The Tunnel. Currently, The 15-Mile Norway‘s Lærdal Tunnel Is The World’s Longest Road Tunnel.

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Scientists Have Discovered Terastiodontosaurus Marcelosanchezi, The Largest Known Worm Lizard, From Fossils In Tunisia. This Reptile, Over 3Ft Long & 50 Myr-Old, Had Strong Jaws & Fed On Snails. Unlike Modern Burrowers, It Likely Lived On The Surface. It’s Closely Related To The Checkerboard Worm Lizard, Both Of The Trogonophids Family.

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Researchers Captured The World’s First-Ever Nanoscale Video Of Hydrogen And Oxygen Atoms Forming The Tiniest-Ever Water Droplet, Measuring 50 Nanometers. This Super-Efficient Reaction, Catalyzed By A Rare Metal Called Palladium, Could Potentially Aid Astronauts In Space To Make Water. The Process Was Observed Using A Novel Monitoring Apparatus.

A Teenager In British Columbia Is The First Person In Canada To Test Positive For Bird Flu (H5N1). The Teen Is In Critical Condition At A Children’s Hospital. The Source Of The Infection Is Under Investigation, Likely From A Bird Or Animal. Human Cases Are Rare, But Scientists Worry About Potential Mutation For Human-To-Human Transmission.

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President-Elect Donald Trump Makes History By Appointing Susie Wiles, A Seasoned GOP Strategist And His 2024 Campaign Co-Chair, As The First Female White House Chief Of Staff In U.S. History. Wiles, Who Has Worked In Republican Politics Since Reagan’s 1980 Campaign, Is Praised By Trump As “Tough, Smart, Innovative” And “Universally Respected.”

Scientists Have Decoded A 3kyr-Old Babylonian Tablet Thought To Depict A Map To Noah’s Ark. The Artifact, Acquired By The British Museum In 1882, Shows Mesopotamia Encircled By A Double Ring –”Bitter River.” Cuneiform Text Hints At A Route To “Urartu” (Ararat), Where The Babylonian Noah Landed His Ark, Paralleling The Biblical Flood Story.

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Former President Jimmy Carter Turned 100 On 10/01/24 In Plains, Ga, Marking Him As The Oldest Living President And The Longest-Living President In US History. His Post-Presidential Legacy Includes Global Election Monitoring, Near-Eradication Of Guinea Worm Disease, And Human Rights Advocacy, Cementing His Lasting Humanitarian & Respected Impacts.

For The First Time Since Its Discovery In 1854, Scientists Found A Juvenile Arthropleura Fossil With A Complete Head In France. CT Scans Revealed, E.G., Millipede-Like Antennas, Centipede-Like Mandibles, & Crab-Like Eyes. Arthropleura, A 300-Myr-Old Ancestor Of Centipedes & Millipedes, Was The Largest Bug On Earth And Likely A Plant Eater.

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After 20 Years Of DNA Analysis, Scientists Confirmed The Bones In Seville Cathedral Belong To Christopher Columbus, Resolving A 500-Year Mystery. His Remains Were Moved Multiple Times, Sparking Debate Over His Burial Site. DNA Comparison With His Relatives Verified This, And Further Research May Reveal His True Origins, Genoa Or Elsewhere.

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Russian Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko And Nikolai Chub Set A Record-Breaking 374-Day Stay Aboard The ISS, Landing In Kazakhstan With American Astronaut Tracy Dyson. Kononenko Set A New Record For Longest Cumulative Space-Time At 1,111 Days. However, Valeri Polyakov Holds The Record For The Longest Unbroken Space Stay At 438 Days On Mir In 1994-95.

Iwao Hakamata, The World’s Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate, Was Exonerated After Over 50 Years In Prison. He Was Arrested In 1966 At Age 30 For The Murder Of His Boss & Family. A Japanese Court Acquitted The Now 88-Year-Old, Citing Planted Bloodstains, Sparking Calls To Reform Japan’s Justice System, Including Abolishing The Death Penalty.

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A Groundbreaking Blood Test Analyzing CRP–A Liver Protein, Lipoprotein(A), And Cholesterol In 30K US Women Reveals Heart Health Risks 30-Yrs In Advance. This “Three-Pronged” Approach, Recommended For Those In Their 30s Or 40s, Showed That High Levels In All 3 Markers Triple Heart Disease Risk, But Early Detection Enables Prevention.

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The South American Lungfish, Lepidosiren Paradoxa, Has The Largest Animal Genome At 30x A Human’s. A Living Fossil & Closest Relative To Early Land Vertebrates, It Breaths Air Through Lung-Like Organs.Its Genome Offers Insights Into Tetrapod Evolution. A Plant, Tmesipteris Oblanceolata, Holds The Largest Genome Overall At 50x A Human’s.

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Scientists In Tokyo Have Attached A Lab-Grown Living Skin Tissue To A Robotic Face, And Manipulated A Living Skin For The First Time To ,E.G., “Smile.” This Breakthrough Could Lead To More Life-Like Robots And Safer Cosmetic Testing. Despite Progress, Overcoming The Unnerving Feeling Evoked By The Nearly Human-Like Robots Remains Challenging.

Archaeologists Have Discovered The World’s Oldest Calendar At Gobekli Tepe, Turkey, Dating Back 12kyrs. The Site Features 365 “V” Symbols On A Pillar, Representing A 12-Month Lunar Calendar With 11 Extra Days. The Carvings May Depict A Comet Strike 13kyrs Ago That Influenced Early Agriculture, Religion, And Possibly Led To Writing.

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In A World-First, Astronomers Have Witnessed A Supermassive Black Hole “Waking Up” And Brightening In Real-Time. Located 360 Million Light-Years Away In Galaxy SDSS1335+0728, The Black Hole Has Shown Increased Luminosity Since 2019, But Its Activation Cause Remains Unknown. Similar Activation Could Occur With Sagittarius A* In Our Galaxy.

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