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    1.8 Billion years of Tectonic Plates movement animation.

    It starts with the map of the world familiar to everyone. Then India rapidly moves south, followed by parts of Southeast Asia as the past continent of Gondwana forms in the Southern Hemisphere. Around 200 million years ago (Ma or mega-annum in the reconstruction), when the dinosaurs walked the...
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    New Tick Borne Virus reported from China - Can affect the Brain.

    A recent case report in the NEJM describes a previously unidentified orthonairovirus, dubbed Wetland virus (WELV), in a man bitten by a tick at a wetland park in Inner Mongolia, China, in 2019. A new tick-borne virus discovered in China can spread to humans and sometimes cause neurological...
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    New Hope for Dengue treatment - mRNA & Crisper at work.

    Dengue virus is rapidly spfreading with no anti-viral cure in sight. Now A team of researchers led by biomedical engineer Phil Santangelo has developed a breakthrough therapy to target and kill the virus using the gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas13. The team's systemic delivery of the treatment was...
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    World's First Nuclear Clock....

    It's not exactly a clock yet but a prototype has been unveiled that will eventually lead to an ultraprecise clock. The prototype is not yet used to measure time. So it technically should be called a “frequency standard,” Whereas atomic clocks measure time based on electrons jumping between...
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    Magnesium plays a crucial role in cellular energy production.

    An international research team led by Umeå professor Magnus Wolf-Watz has discovered how the magnesium atom directs the chemistry that catalyzes the production of the energy molecule ATP in a cell. ATP is a vital driving force in the cell. For biological life to exist at all, cells are in...
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    Hidden Dangers in Your Microwave: Over 100 Bacteria Species Can Thrive!

    PS: Microwaves don’t actually kill bacteria. Instead, microwaves create heat that is able to kill bacteria in foods.
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    Why Socrates Hated Democracy.

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    EVERYTHING We Know About The Brazil Air Crash.

    PS: Authorities investigating the accident now have the black box but its contents do not immediately explain the cause of the crash, local station TV Globo reported.The channel said it has obtained a transcript of the black box recording, said to cover around two hours of audio. It features...
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    1960's icon Alain Delon passes away..

    Alain Delon’s death at the age of 88 brings down the curtain of one of postwar European cinema’s most important film stars. Known for his striking “movie star” look – chiselled features, piercing blue eyes – and magnetic screen presence, Delon portrayed characters who seemed on the surface to...
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    Largest Animal Genome Sequenced....

    Scientists sequenced the largest known animal genome in a species of lungfish — ancient fish that breathe air. Scientists have sequenced the largest known animal genome — and it's 30 times bigger than the human genome. The genome belongs to the South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa), a...
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    Novel Nanoparticles in Blood could Diagnose Cancer.

    Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified a new class of RNAs packed into tiny particles known as extracellular vesicles (EVs) that could revolutionize how cancer and other diseases are diagnosed. The team found that these molecules undergo changes when cancer is...
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    Photon entanglement could explain the rapid brain signals behind consciousness.

    Understanding the nature of consciousness is one of the hardest problems in science. Some scientists have suggested that quantum mechanics, and in particular quantum entanglement, is the key to unraveling the phenomenon. Now, a research group in China has shown that many entangled photons can...
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    Weekend Geometry Puzzle - 17_08_24

    Given: DAB = 60 deg, DAE = 20 deg, ABE = 50 deg, DBE = 30 deg. Find the angle ADE, marked with θ
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    Scientists believe that the mystery of the 66 Million year old Asteroid is solved.

    Scientists have uncovered the "genetic fingerprint" of the dinosaur-killing Chicxulub impactor, potentially revealing the fateful rock's origins in the outer reaches of our solar system. The space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was a rare strike from an asteroid beyond...

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