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Magawa, A 7-Year-Old African Rodent, And One Of The HeroRATs Trained To Detect Landmines Since The 1990s, Has Been Award A Gold Medal, By The UK Veterinary Charity, PDSA, For Its Gallantry In Sniffing Out Landmines And Unexploded Munitions In Cambodia. Magawa Has Sniffed Out 39 Landmines And 28 Unexploded Munitions In His Career.

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Scientists May Use Chitin As A Key Ingredient In Building Tools And Shelters On Mars. Chitin Is Promising Because It Is Ubiquitous And Could Be Combined With Marsian Soils, With Less Energy And No Specialized Equipment, To Quickly Make New Products. Chitin Could Likely Be Sourced As A By-Product Of The Mars Crews’ Insect Diet.

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Earliest Archaeological Evidence, A Persian Manuscript, Indicates That Stainless Steel (SS) Were Not Recent Innovation. But That A Version Of It Was Produced In Chahak, Iran, 1000 Years Ago By Ancient Persians. This Version, Which Contains Phosphorus And Less Chromium Than Modern SS, Were Likely Used In Producing, E.G., Fighting Tools.

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Though Not Unheard Of, The Viral Video That Many Have Labeled “Scary And Frightening,” Shows A Spider (Suspectedly A Pink Toe Tarantula ) From A Beam, Eating And Holding An Entire Bird In Its Front Legs. Pink Toe Tarantulas, Found In S. America, Are Active Predators That Live On Trees And Feed On Rodents And Small Mammals.

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Researchers May Have Provided The First Proof That Ultraviolet C (UVC) Light, With A Wavelength Of 222nm, Can Effectively Kill SARS-CoV-2. The 222nm UVC Light, Which Is Said To Be Safe Around Humans, Was Found To Kill 99.7% Of SARS-CoV-2 After A 30-Second Exposure, Making It A Possible Disinfectant For Human Occupied Areas.

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Scientists May Have Discovered Phosphine In The Atmosphere Of Venus, Which They Believe Is The First Clear Evidence For Life Beyond Earth. And Their Reasoning Is Logical Because, Unless There Is An Unknown Chemical Reaction That May Result In Phosphine Production, The Only Known Source Is Via Biological Processes, Produced By Bacteria.

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Researchers, In Australia, Have Found A New Neurotoxin, Called Gympietide, In The Stinging Dendrocnide Tree. The Neurotoxin Is Similiar To The Toxins Produced In Venomous Animals Like Spiders and Cone Snails. The Toxin Is Said To Cause Long-Lasting Excruciating Pain. Researchers Hope The New Toxin Study Helps In Developing Painkillers.

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Scientists May Have Found The Oldest Animal Sperm Inside A New Species Of An Ostracod, Called Myanmarcypris Hui. The Sperm, Said To Be 100 Myrs Old, Was Found In An Ostracod Frozen Inside The Blob Of Tree Resin In Myanmar. The Sperm Age Dwarfs The Oldest Known Sample Of A Fossilized Animal (Ostracod) Sperm, Said To Be 17 Myrs Old.

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This May Be Another Case Of Parthenogenesis In A Snake. This Time, A Ball Python, Identified By The Number 361003, And Said To Be The Oldest Snake (62 Years Old) At The Saint Louis Zoo, Has Laid 7 Eggs, On July 23, 2020, Without Being With A Male In More Than 15 Years. Egg Testing Is On The Way To Confirm Parthenogenesis.

Japanese Researchers Discovered That A Bacteria, Named Deinococcus Radiodurans, AKA Conan The Bacterium Due To Its Extreme Hardness, Is Capable Of Surviving In Space After It Survived For 3 Years Outside The International Space Station. The Discovery Could Throw More Light On The Possibility Of Life Existing On Other Planets.

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