Kandice Tirado

Scientists Discovered The Hadal Snailfish, Earth’s Deepest-Living Vertebrate, Thriving Over 36k Ft Deep In The Mariana Trench. Their Survival Ability In Extremely Harsh Conditions Aids In Exploring Extraterrestrial Life Possibilities & Emphasizes Responsible Practices During Deep-Sea Resource Extraction To Protect These Fragile Ecosystems.

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In A World-First, Astronomers Have Witnessed A Supermassive Black Hole “Waking Up” And Brightening In Real-Time. Located 360 Million Light-Years Away In Galaxy SDSS1335+0728, The Black Hole Has Shown Increased Luminosity Since 2019, But Its Activation Cause Remains Unknown. Similar Activation Could Occur With Sagittarius A* In Our Galaxy.

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Astronomers Discovered WASP-193b, An Exoplanet 50% Larger Than Jupiter But Only 14% Of Its Mass, Making It The 2nd Lightest Known Planet After Kepler 51d. Located 1,200 LY Away, The “Puffy Jupiter” Is Likely Comprised Mainly Hydrogen & Helium, And Its Extended Atmosphere Is Ideal For Studying Its Planetary Formation With Tools Like JWST.

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Astronomers Observed, For The First Time, The ‘Glory Effect’ (GE) On An Exoplanet, WASP-76b, Similar To Earth’s & Venus‘s. It Features Concentric, Colorful Rings Of Light Caused By Light Reflecting Off Clouds Made Of A Uniform Substance. Extreme Conditions—Scorching Dayside, Nightside Iron Rain—Permit GE, Offering Insights Into Alien Atm.

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Geophysical Findings Reveal Deniliquin, A 520km-Wide Impact Structure Submerged Beneath NSW, Australia, Surpassing The Largest Known Impact Crater (IC), South Africa’s Vredefort Crater. Sediment Analysis Suggests An Impact 440-500 Myrs Ago. Rock Sample Recovery Is Crucial To Confirm Its Meteoritic Origin. Most IC Are Less Than 200 Myrs Old.

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Harvard University Inaugurated Claudine Gay As Its First Black And Second Female President. Gay, The 30th President In Harvard’s History, Is A 1998 Distinguished Harvard Alum And Accomplished Political Scholar. Gay’s Tenure Follows Her Role As Dean Of The Faculty Of Arts And Sciences And Founding Chair Of The Inequality In America Initiative.

Scientists Found 50 Tiny Microscopic Sphere Fragments Of A Mysterious Meteor, From Outside Our Solar System, Which Crashed Into The Pacific Ocean, Near Papua New Guinea, In 2014. Further Testing Is Required To Determine If These Spheres, Made Of A Unique Metallic Substance, Are Natural Or Of Technological Origin, Which Could Signify Alien Life.

Prof. Avi Loeb, A Controversial Scientist, Is Stating That The Object He Identified As Interstellar, Which Crashed Into The Pacific In 2014, Could Be An Alien Craft. Prof. Loeb’s Speculation Comes After A US Space Command Report Indicated The Object To Be A Meteor. Prof. Loeb, Recently, Is Focused On The Possibility Of Life Beyond Earth.

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Researchers Have Discovered, In NE China, The Largest Impact Crater That Formed On Earth In The Last 100000 Years. The Crescent-Shaped Crater, Called “Yilan Crater,” Is The Second Impact Crater Discovered In China. The Crater, ~46,000 To 53,000 Years Old, Is ~1.15 Miles Across. The Meteor Crater In Arizona Previously Held The Record.

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Researchers Found, In A 16 Myr Old Dominican Amber, A Third Known Fossil Of A Tardigrade. The Fossil, Called Paradoryphoribius Chronocaribbeus, A New Species & Relative Of The Living Tardigrades Isohypsibioidea Species, Is The First From The Cenozoic Era (Began ~66 Mya). A Tardigrade Fossil Find Is Said To Be A Once In A Generation Event.

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