Ken Parth

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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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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Researchers, For The First Time, Have Found A Unique Solar System With 3 Suns. 2 Of The Suns, With Combined Mass That’s 12X Our Sun’s Mass, Orbit Each Other In 24 Hrs, WhileThe 3rd Larger Sun (16X Our Sun’s Mass) Orbits The Other 2. More Study Is Needed To Find Out How The Stars Formed In The Solar System, HD 98800, Which Is 150 LY Away.

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Researchers, Via Genetic Study, Have Discovered The World’s Largest Clone. The Clone, A 4500 Yrs Old Massive Network Of Seaweed Called Posidonia Australis, Was Found In Australia. And Is Said To Cover More Than 77 mi² (200 km²). P. Australis Is Said To Be A Single Plant That Clones Itself, Unlike Some Seaweeds That Reproduce Sexually.

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Scientists Used The Estimated Ages Of 250,000 Stars, Known As Sub-Giants, In The Milky Way To Determine That Part Of Our Galaxy, Associated With The Thick Disk, Is 2 Byrs Older Than Earlier Thought. The Stars’ Ages Indicate That The First Phase Of Star Formation Started ~800 Myrs After The Big Bang But Accelerated 2 Billion Years Later.

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The US FDA Has Approved The First Eye Drop That Could Replace Reading Glasses For Folks 40 Years And Older, Who Experience Age-Related Blurry Near Vision. The Drug, Called Vuity, Which Activates In 15 Minutes, Is Said To Be Able To Provide Sharp Vision For 6 To 10 Hours To The ~128 Million Americans Affected By Blurred Near Vision.

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Barbados Will Become A Republic, On Nov. 30th, 2021 (55 Years Since Independence) After Swearing-In Its First Elected President, Sandra Mason. The Former Governor-General Will Replace Britain’s Queen Elizabeth As Head Of State (HOS). Several Countries, After Independence, Dropped The Queen As HOS, But Some Like Australia And Canada Didn’t.

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Researchers Have Pinpointed The Precise Date The Vikings First Arrived The Americas. They Estimated The Date These First Europeans Arrived To Be 1021–1,000 Years Ago. The Estimate Was Done Via Carbon Dating Of Woods From The Only Confirmed Norse Archeological Site In The Americas, Called L’Anse Aux Meadows, In Newfoundland, Canada.

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A New Find In An Ancient Camp Site, In Northern Utah, Indicates That Humans Used Tobacco ~9000 Years Earlier Than Thought. The Find, Charred Tobacco Plant Seeds, Indicates Hunter-Gatherers, In Utah Desert, Smoked The Plant About 12,300 Years. The Earliest Evidence Until Now Was A 3,300-Year-Old Smoking Pipe Discovered In Alabama.

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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.

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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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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Ashleigh Barty Has Become The First Indigenous Australian, In 41 Years, To Win The Wimbledon Women’s Singles Title. Barty Is The Second Australian To Win It After Her Mentor, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Won It In 1971 And 1980. Barty, A Junior Wimbledon Champion In 2011, Also Successfully Played Professional Cricket For The Brisbane Heat.

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Scientists Have Revived Tiny Organisms That Were Frozen During The Late Pleistocene Epoch. The Creatures, Known As Bdelloid Rotifers Or Wheel Animals, And Said To Have Existed For About 50 Million Years, Were Frozen In The Arctic For 24,000 Years. The Organisms, Once Thawed, Began Reproducing Asexually, Creating Clones That Were Their Genetic Duplicates.

A Blind Man Had His Eyesight Partially Restored, In A First Of Such Successful Treatment In Human Using Optogenetic Therapy And Engineered Goggles. The 58-Year-Old Man, For 40 Years, Was Afflicted With A Neurodegenerative Eye Disease, Retinitis Pigmentosa, Which Changes How The Retina Responds To Light, Which Could Lead To Total Blindness.

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Phil Mickelson Has Made History As The Oldest Golfer To Win A Golf Major. He Was 50 Years, 11 Months, 8 Days When He Won The 2021 PGA Championship On 5/23/2021. This Win Implies A Total Of 29 Golfers Aged 40 And Above Have Won The Golf Major A Sum Total Of 39 Times. Mickelson Has 6 Major Golf Championships, Winning All But The US Open.

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Dean Du Plessis, Born With Tumors Behind Both Retinas, Has Become The First Visually Impaired Commentator To Cover International Cricket. He Developed His Skills Via A Lifetime Of Listening To Cricket And His Ability To Recognise People By Sound, Touch, And Smell, Enabling The 44-Year-Old Zimbabwean To Become A Successful Broadcaster.

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A Lone Male Duck, Known As A Common Pochard Was Spotted For The First Time In British Columbia. And There Is Speculation That This May Be The First Time That This Wild Bird Has Been Spotted In Canada. The Bird Is Said To Be Native To Europe And Asia And Usually Migrates South Of The 2 Continents For The Winter.

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Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Researchers Have Released The Most Detailed, And The First Time Polarized-Light Image Of A Black Hole , In Messier 87 Galaxy, Showing Magnetic Fields Behavior At The Very Edge Of A Black Hole. The EHT’s Data Is Key To Understanding How Magnetic Fields Allow Black Holes To ‘Eat’ Matter And Launch Powerful Jets.

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Archeologist, For The First Time, Have Unearthed A Unique Carriage For Festive Activities In Ancient Pompeii. The Four-wheeled Carriage, Comprising Iron, Bronze, And Tin, Was Found, ~700 Metres North Of Ancient Pompeii Walls, Near The Stables Of An Ancient Villa At Civita Giuliana. This Discovery Will Shed More Light On Ancient Pompeii.

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