Moises Daugherty

Scientists, For The First Time, Observed A Star, Wasp-12, Swallow A Gas Giant Planet Like Jupiter In Aquila Constellation 10-15k Yrs Ago, Emitting Bursts Of Light & Dust In Cold Infrared Energy. Experts Say Earth May Suffer The Same Fate In 5 Byrs As Our Sun Turns Into A Red Giant. The Star-Gulping Data Could Help Find Similar Events.

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Colorado’s Biofire Has Launched The First Biometric Smart Gun With Facial Recognition And Fingerprint Verification. The Gun Grip Has A Fingerprint Sensor, While The Back Has 3D Facial Recognition. When Held, A Green Light Turns On To Indicate The Firearm Recognizes The Holder. Pre-Orders Began In April 2023, Aiming To Improve Gun Safety.

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Spacex, On 4/20/23, Launched Starship, The Most Powerful Rocket Ever Built For Deep Space Travels To E.g., Mars. Sadly, It Exploded 4 Mins Into The Flight. Starship Has 2 Compartments, One For Carrying People And Goods And Another For A Super Booster With 33 Engines. The Failed Launch Offers Valuable Insights For Improvement Before The Next Test.

Dr. Howard Tucker, The World’s Oldest Practicing Doctor At 100—The Guinness World Records, Credits His Longevity To Good Genes, Luck, Exercise, Continuous Learning, And A Healthy Lifestyle Free From Smoking. Dr. Tucker, A Neurologist, Has Retired From Patient Care But Continues To Teach At St. Vincent Charity Medical Center, Cleveland, OH

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The Antarctic Desert, Categorized As A Cold Desert, Is The World’s Largest Desert Spanning ~ 5.48 Million Square Miles. The Arctic Desert, Also A Cold Desert, Is The Second Largest At ~ 5.37 Million Square Miles. The Sahara Desert, Classified As A Hot And Dry Desert, Is The Largest Non-Polar Desert, Covering ~3.55 Million Square Miles.

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The Largest Known Star, UY Scuti, Discovered By German Astronomers In 1860, Is In The Milky Way Galaxy, ~9500 Ly From Earth. It’s 1700x The Radius Of Our Sun. Stars Like UY Scuti Are Rare Due To Their Shorter Lifespan (In Millions), Unlike Those That Last For Billions Of Years. The Smallest Star, EBLM J0555-57Ab, Is About Saturn’s Size.

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New Research Suggests That Skilled Painters Like Da Vinci And Rembrandt Intentionally Used Egg Yolk In Oil Paintings Due To Its Beneficial Properties, Including Protection Against Humidity, Viscosity, And Its Antioxidant Effects. This Discovery Sheds Light On Art History And Offers Insights For Better Preservation & Conservation Of Artwork.

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Fremont, CA Is The Happiest City In The USA, For The 2nd Year In A Row, In A Wallethub Ranking Of 182 Cities Based On 30 Factors Like Emotional & Physical Well-Being, Income, And Environment. San Jose, CA; Madison, WI; Overland Park, KS; And San Francisco, CA Rounded Out The Top 5. California Dominated The List, While Detroit Ranked Last.

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Nadia Kahf Has Become The First Hajiba Wearing Judge In New Jersey After Her New Jersey Superior Court Appointment. But Carolyn Walker-Dialo Is The First Hijab-Wearing Judge In The US After Her Appointment As A Civil Court Judge In NY In 2015. Many Muslims Serve As Judges In The US, But These Women Are The Only Ones Known To Wear Hijab.

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Scientists Can Observe Oceanic Crust Forming In The East African Rift Valley As The Valley Continues To Mature, With Further Splits, From Its Relatively Early Stage Of A Plate Boundary Divergence. The Rift, In 5 -10 Myrs, Could Give Rise To Coastlines In Countries Like Kenya And Uganda, As Eastern Africa Separates From The Rest Of The African Continent.

French Bulldog, For The First Time In 31 Years, Has Been Ranked As The Most Favorite Dog In The USA, Surpassing The Labrador Retrievers. The Rank Was Done By The American Kennel Club Based On Data From 716,500 Voluntary Registrations From Dog Owners. The 3rd, 4th, And 5th Positions Went To Golden Retrievers, German Shepherds, And Poodles.

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The World’s First Cataract Surgery On Penguins Was Done, By Mandai Wildlife Group, On 6 Geriatric Penguins That Reside At Singapore’s Jurong Bird Park, A Popular Tourist Attraction That Houses Some 5,000 Birds. The Cloudy Lens, In A 2.5 Hours Surgery Per Penguin, Were Replaced With Lenses Manufactured In Germany To Fit Each Penguin’s Eye.

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Researchers Have Discovered That A Hydrogen Consuming Enzyme, Huc, Found In Soil Bacteria, Could Generate Electricity From Air. The Study Also Revealed That Huc Could Be Stored For A Long Time At Freezing Temperature Or Up To 80 oC Without Losing Its Electric Generating Power–Making It A Potential GroundBreaking Source Of Clean Energy.

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An Olympic Swimming Pool-Sized Asteroid, 2023 DW, Has A Small, 1 In 560, Chance Of Impacting Earth On Feb 14, 2046, According To Nasa. It Is Estimated To Fly Pass Earth At A Distance Of ~1.1m Miles, Making It The Only Space Rock On Nasa’s Risk List To Rank 1 On The Torino Impact Hazard Scale—Indicating An Unlikely Risk For An Impact.

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Researchers, Including NASA Scientists, Using Satellite Imagery And AI To Map ~10 Billion Trees, Carried Out The First Comprehensive Estimate Of Tree Carbon Density In The Drylands Of Africa. The Study Estimates ~0.84 Billion Metric Tons Of Carbon—A Data That Is Essential For, E.g., Understanding Global Carbon Cycle And Climate Change Projection.

Adiah And Adrial Nadarajah, According To The Guinness World Records, Are The World’s Most Premature Twins. The Canadian Siblings Were Born At 21.3 Wks– 126 Days Early, Overtaking The Previous Record Of 125 Days Early Birth Set In 2018 By Identical Twins Kambry and Keeley Ewoldt In Iowa, US. A Full-Term Pregnancy Is Usually 9 Months (39 Wks).

An Arctic Walrus, For The First Time In Over 25 Years, Was Spotted Along The W. Coast Of Scotland. Walrus Are Long Distance Travelers, And Some Experts Are Speculating This To Be The Same Walrus Seen In Netherlands, France, England, & Iceland. 2 Walrus Groups Are Thought To Exist In The Wild: ~25,000 Atlantic And ~ 200,000 Pacific Walruses.

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A Very Rare Insect, The Giant Lacewing, Or Polystoechotes Punctata, Of The Jurassic Era, Has Been Spotted For The First Time Since It Vanished In The 1950s From E. North America. The Bug, Found In 2012 At An Arkansas Walmart, Was Identified In 2022. Factors Like Pollution & Artificial Light Are Said To Have Caused Its Disappearance.

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The Biggest Living Frog On Earth, Said To Grow As Big As A Cat, Is Now Endangered As It Has Been Over-Hunted For Food And Pet Trade In Cameroon And Equatorial Guinea. A Conservative Group Is, However, Effectively Making Efforts To The Save The Frog By Working With Hunters And Setting Up Alternative Food Sources, Snail Farms, For The Locals.

Spain, Like Demark First Did In 2014, Has Passed A Law That Would Enable People Over 16 To Legally Identify As Another Gender Without Medical Evaluation, And Confirm It 3 Months Later. The Law Changes The Usual Process That Required A Medical Diagnosis Of Gender Dysphoria And To Be On Hormonal Treatment For 2 Yrs Before A Gender Change.

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