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• Astronauts Share Most Breathtaking Images of Earth From Space in 2024 December 27, 2024 2:52 am ScienceAlert Every year, the International Space Station produces some of the world's best photography. Astronauts tend to be technically skilled with a camera, yes. Many of them are engineers, after all. Their real photography advantage, though, is the glorious …
• Why Nefertiti still inspires, 3,300 years after she reigned December 27, 2024 1:05 am KTVZ - Oregon (CNN) — One hundred years ago, in a courtyard at the Neues Museum in Berlin, the world came face to face for the first time with one of its most enduring beauty icons: Queen Nefertiti. Discovered in Egypt in 1912 by German archaeologists, her 3,300-year- …
• Miketz: Prevailing in Dreams and Reality December 27, 2024 12:57 am The Times of Israel Yosef’s story is characterised by dreams – his own dreams, his ability to interpret the dreams of others, and his insight in implementing those dreams in reality. In Vayeshev, we hear of his dreams – dreams of his brothers’ eleven sheaves of wheat bowing …
• Ancient disease discovered in ancient DNA of Egyptian mummy December 27, 2024 12:53 am Daily Mail One of the oldest known cases of the 'Black Death' plague has been uncovered in the ancient DNA of a 3,290-year-old Egyptian mummy. The cvirus Yersinia pestis, or the bubonic plague, is known for the havoc it wrought in medieval Europe — where the …
• Facebook meme correctly states that vaccines led to eradication of polio and smallpox, not “natural herd immunity” December 27, 2024 12:10 am Science Feedback Key takeaway Herd immunity occurs when a community is protected from an infectious disease because a sufficient proportion of the community is immune to the disease. Immunity can be acquired through infection, as well as through vaccination. Unlike …