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.