Soyal Khan

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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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.