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Researchers Have Discovered One Of The Biggest Animals From The Cambrian Period. The Long Head Ocean-Dwelling (OD) Animal, Named Titanokorys Gainesi, Related To The Horseshoe Crab, Was Discovered In The Burgess Shale In Canada. Gainesi Is Said To Be 1/2 Meter In Length Compared To Many Of The Other Cambrian OD Pinky-Finger-Size Organisms.

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Scotland Wants To Trial A 4-Day Work Week To Boost Worker’s Happiness & Productivity. Scotland Will Model The Trial After Iceland, One Of The Countries, Which Includes Spain, Japan, New Zealand, To Have Undergone A Trial And May Be Exploring A Permanent Switch. Scotland Workers Will See A 20% Work Hours Reduction Without Change In Wages.

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NASA’s Perseverance Rover, On Sept. 1, 2021, Snagged The First Rock Samples From Mars At A Ridge Dubbed “Citadelle” (French For “Castle”). The Samples Are Expected To Be Delivered To Earth As Early As 2031 By A Joint NASA-European Space Agency Mission. The Samples, Once Delivered, Will Be The First Piece Of Another Planet On Earth.

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The Swiss Alps, A Popular Tourist Attraction, Is Being Protected From Increasing Summer Melt, Due To Global Warming, By Covering It With Special Blankets That Reflects The Sun’s Ray, Thereby Reducing Seasonal Melt By 70%. The 5 Mile Swiss Glacier Is Said To Have Shrunk, Over The Last 10 Years, With The Disappearance Of ~131 Ft Of Glacier.

A New Assessment Indicates That 30% (17,500) Of The ~60,000 Tree Species On The Earth May Face Extinction, Due To Factors Like Grazing And Farming, Fire, Logging, Development Etc. Preserving Existing Forest And Expanding Protection Areas; Utilizing Seedbanks And Botanic Gardens, Coupled With Reforestation Education Could Stem The Tide.

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Researchers May Have Inadvertently Discovered The Most Northernmost Island Off Greenland Coast . The Scientists Made The Discovery During An Expedition To Oodaaq Island, Previously Thought To Be The Most Northernmost Island. But They Soon Discovered They Were 800m (2,625ft) Further North Of Oodaaq Island, Where The 60X30m Island Is Located.

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Researchers Have Discovered In The Sahara Desert, The Fossil Of A Four-Legged Whale, Said To Have Raptorial Feeding Style. The 43 Million-Year-Old Fossil Indicates That The Whale, Known As Phiomicetus Anubi, Had A Powerful And Deadly Jaw, Which Could Make It A Top Predator/ The God Of Death To Animals That Lived Within Its Vicinity.

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Ms. Josephine Baker, Who Died In 1975, Will Be The First Black Woman To Be Given One Of The Highest Honors In France–Honored With A Memorial Plaque At The Panthéon Monument, Paris, On Nov. 30th. The Late Ms. Baker Was A French-American Singer, Dancer, And Actress Who Fought Against Racism And In The French Resistance During WWW II.

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The Gravitational Force Around Black Holes (BH), Which Prevents Light From Escaping, Can Heat Material To Release Radio Waves And X-rays. Researchers, Studying The X-Rays, Observed Them, For The First Time, From Behind A BH, Due To Light Bending Effect Of BH, Supporting Albert Einstein’s Theory That Gravity Is Matter Warping Space-Time.

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Researchers Used Chunks Of Tumour From The Brain Of Patients With Glioblastoma To Print A 3-D Model Similar To What They See In The Patients’ MRI Scans. And Then, Pumped The Patients’ Blood Into The 3-D Model With A Compound That Mimics The Brain, To Test The Efficacy Of A Potential Treatment Before Using It On The Real Body. Cool!

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