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    Earth's Second Moon - but not for long.

    NASA scientists have calculated that Earth will capture a "second moon" on Sunday (Sept. 29). The "mini-moon" comes in the form of the tiny asteroid 2024 PT5, which usually orbits the sun as part of a small asteroid belt that follows Earth. While Earth's primary companion, the moon, has...
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    Medicinal tree successfully grown from 1,000-year-old seed.

    An international team of botanists, agriculturists and historians has successfully grown a mature tree from an ancient seed found in a cave in Israel. In the 1980s, researchers excavating a cave in the Judean Desert, in Israel, uncovered a seed that was subsequently dated to sometime between...
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    Time, Black Holes, and the Cosmos - Roger Penrose

    Sir Roger Penrose - 93 years old.
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    Groundbreaking AI study - More than 300 new Nazca Lines Discovered.

    Scientists used AI to find 303 never-before-seen geoglyphs in Peru's Nazca Desert, including abstract humanoid figures, ancient ceremonies, "decapitated heads" and a "killer whale holding a knife." Scientists have discovered more than 300 never-before-seen Nazca Lines in Peru — including...
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    Meet the Amoeba that eats prey like the Owls do.

    The microscopic predator engulfs algae, drains the cells and spits out the shell. The amoeba Strigomyxa ruptor (large yellow-orange cell) engulfs its prey, a Closterium alga (elongated green cell). Unlike all known protists, the amoeba splits open its prey, extracts and consumes the innards, and...
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    ...Might Save 58 Lives Next Week

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    UFO?

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    New Study Links animals at Wuhan Market with Covid-19.

    A new study identifies raccoon dogs and civet cats as likely carriers of SARS-CoV-2 at the Huanan market, supporting the theory that infected animals caused the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings highlight the need to understand pandemic origins and prevent future zoonotic spillovers. A recent...
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    Human Genome stored on 'everlasting' memory crystal

    University of Southampton scientists have stored the full human genome on a 5D memory crystal—a revolutionary data storage format that can survive for billions of years. The team hope that the crystal could provide a blueprint to bring humanity back from extinction thousands, millions or even...
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    Politicians....

    Elections are around the corner. So, here are some witty & pithy quotes to both humour you & show you the reality. 😂 Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor & campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. ~Oscar Ameringer, "the Mark Twain of...
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    Homework Excuse - updated.

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    A Dying Star is similar to a Lava Lamp.

    Photos taken over a few weeks from 2023-07-18 Astronomers have observed the detailed motions of giant gas bubbles on the surface of a nearby star for the first time, which rise and fall like the inside of a lava lamp. The massive hot gas bubbles are 75 times the size of the sun, and they...
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    Scientists discover a long-sought global electric field on Earth.

    Using observations from a NASA suborbital rocket, an international team of scientists, for the first time, has successfully measured a planet-wide electric field thought to be as fundamental to Earth as its gravity and magnetic fields. Known as the ambipolar electric field, scientists first...
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    Bird and Fortune - Iraq

    An old video... Enjoy. Both the actors have passed away. RIP.
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    Cannabis Use Could Skyrocket Your Cancer Risk... 5 X increase

    A study conducted by the USC Head and Neck Center, part of Keck Medicine of USC and the USC Caruso Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, indicates a link between cannabis use, the most widely used illicit substance globally, and a higher risk of developing head and neck cancer...
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    World’s first whole-eye transplant.

    The first face transplant to also include an eyeball was a surgical coup — but restoring vision remains a challenge. For Aaron James, it still hasn’t quite sunk in that he received the first successful whole-eye transplant in history. “It just blows my mind being a part of something this big,”...
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    Palki Sharma - Oxford Union

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