Ken Yun

A Very Rare Insect, The Giant Lacewing, Or Polystoechotes Punctata, Of The Jurassic Era, Has Been Spotted For The First Time Since It Vanished In The 1950s From E. North America. The Bug, Found In 2012 At An Arkansas Walmart, Was Identified In 2022. Factors Like Pollution & Artificial Light Are Said To Have Caused Its Disappearance.

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John Williams, At 90, Has Made History As The Oldest Person Nominated For An Oscar Award For His Score In “The Fabelmans.” If He Wins, At 91, He Would Become The Oldest Person To Have Won The Award. Mr. Williams Is The Living Person With The Most, 53, Oscar Nominations And The 2nd Most Nominated Person In Oscar History After Walt Disney.

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A New Study Of About 405,981 British Adults Indicates That Walking Faster Could Add 20 More Years To A Person’s Biological Age. The Researchers Discovered That Walking Faster, Regardless Of Other Physical Activities, Could Lead To Longer Telomeres, Which Are The Protective “Caps” On The Ends Of The Chromosomes That Help Stabilize The DNA.

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The Largest Ice Comet Nucleus Ever Seen Has Been Confirmed Via NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The Comet, C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein), ~80 Miles In Diameter, Was First Observed In 2010 From An Observatory In Chile When It Was ~3 Billion Miles From The Sun. The Previous Record Holder, C/2002 VQ94, Discovered In 2002, Was ~60 Miles Across.

A New Study, Via Testing 22 Blood Samples, Has Detected, For The First Time, Tiny Particles Of Plastic In Human Blood. And Warn That The Microplastics Could Damage Human Cells. Half Of The Blood Samples Had Plastics From Drink Bottles, Another Third Had Plastics From Packaging Food. The Remaining Quarter Had Plastic From Shopping Bags.

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More Promising News On The Coronavirus Vaccine: The 1,077 People Trial, Conducted By The University Of Oxford, Showed That Their Vaccine Appears Safe And Triggers An Immune Response That Can Fight Coronavirus. Regardless, Larger Trials Are On The Way To Verify The Vaccine Effectiveness. The UK Has Already Ordered 100 Million Vaccine Doses.

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The First COVID-19 Experimental Drug In The USA, Created By Moderna Inc. And The National Institutes of Health, Is Set To Advance To The Final Stage After Scientists Discovered That It Responded As Expected And Triggered An Immune Response In People. The Final Test Will Begin Around July 27th, 2020 In A 30,000 Person Study. Nice!

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Scientists May Have Developed An Eco-Friendly Living Building Materials (LBM) To Solve Some Problems, E.G., With Sourcing For Construction Materials And Building In Remote And Austere Environments. The Living Concrete, Which Involves Enlisting Bacteria, Gelatin And Sand For Its Construction, Still Needs More Work To Make It Stronger For Practical Uses.

Two Major Movie Franchises, Wick 4′ And ‘Matrix 4,’ With A Common Character, Keanu Reeves, Is Set To Be Released On The Same Day Of May 21st, 2021. And The Internet Has Dubbed The Release Date “Keanu Reeves Day.” This May Be The First Time That Such Blockbuster Releases Have Ever Happened In The World. Looking Forward To The Movies!

Two Couples From Texas Have Been Declared By The Guinness World Record To Be The Oldest Living Married Couple In The World. The Couples, John Henderson, 106, And His Wife, Charlotte, 105, Will Be Married For 80 Years On Dec 15. John Henderson Is Also Said To Be The Oldest Living Former University Of Texas Football Player. Wow!

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Hospital Infections Are The 8 Leading Cause Of Death In the USA With Beds As The Main Spreading Culprit. Hence The Importance Of The Study Finds That Beds With Copper Surfaces, Due To Copper Antimicrobial Properties, Harbor An Average Of 94% Fewer Bacteria Than Regular Beds With Plastic Surfaces That Could Hold Unsafe Levels Of Bacteria.

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The First Known Planet, In A Habitable Zone Outside Of Our Solar System, To Have Water In Its Atmosphere May Have Been Discovered. The Exoplanet, K2-18b, ~110 LY From Earth, Is Said To Be 8.6X The Mass And 2.7X The Radius Of Earth. The Discovery Was Made Using Hubble Space Telescope. K2-18b Completely Orbits, In 33 Days, A Dwarf Cooler Sun.

A Fisherman Caught An Extremely Rare Lobster Off The Coast Of Maine, USA. The Odds Of Finding This Rare Two-Toned Lobster, With A Red And Brown Split-Color, Are 1 In 50 Million. While The Odds Of Finding An Albino Lobster Are 1 In 100 Million. The Two-Toned Lobster Is On Display At Discovery Wharf In Stonington, Maine. Cool!

The Mysterious Jelly Substance, Discovered By China’s Chang’e 4 Rover, In A Crater, Has Gotten Everyone Baffled. Well, It’s To Be Expected Given That It’s The First Time A Thing Of This Nature Has Been Found On The Moon. Anyway, Some Scientists Think It’s Melt Glass Formed By Meteorite Impact On The Surface Of The Moon

An Easy Way To Access One’s Risk Of Heart Disease Has Been Determined, And It’s Via Something Commonly Done. Doctors, Studying 1,104 Fire Fighters Over A 10-Year period, Have Determined That Folks Who Can Do Greater Than 40 Pushups Have 96% Lower Risks Of Heart Disease Compared To Those Who Completed Less Than 10 Pushups.

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Consuming Too Much Omega 6 Against Omega 3 Can Lead To Heart Disease, Diabetes And Obesity. Hence, According To Scientists, It Is Recommended To Use Milk From Cows That Feed On 100% Organic Diet As They Tend To Have More Omega 3. Conventional Whole Milk Has A Higher Ratio Of Omega 6 To Omega 3.

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