One-month old Molly Gibson has broken the record set by her own sister, Emma, now three years old.
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“Benjamin and Tina Gibson were blessed on Nov. 25 with their “sweet miracle:” Baby Emma Wren, weighing in at 6 lbs., 8 oz., and 20 inches long, the National Embryo Donation Center announced Tuesday.
But what makes Emma a “miracle” child? Having been cryopreserved for twenty-four and a half years, she’s the longest known frozen human embryo to result in a successful birth.”
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New mom gives birth to embryo that was frozen for 24.5 years.
You’re crazy for this one, Prince Rupert.
Have you heard of the wild, almost indestructible Prince Rupert’s Drop? Science Alert recently unearthed a video from Smarter Every Day that shows this strong-as-hell glass marvel actually shattering a bullet at a beautiful 150,000 frames per second.
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Cornered by a dangerous predator, a gecko can self-amputate its still twitching tail, creating a fleeting moment of distraction — a chance for the lizard to flee with its life.
Small reptiles such as geckos and skinks are well known for this remarkable ability to sacrifice and then rapidly regrow their tails. Now, to scientists’ surprise, it turns out that much larger alligators can regrow theirs too. But only while they’re young.
Juvenile American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) can regrow up to 18 percent of their total body length back. This is about 23 cm or 9 inches of length.
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On lighter news.
McDonald’s pork McRib sandwich will be available in Colorado and nationwide on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. The sandwich debuted in 1982 and is a fan-favorite item.
The bird, named Falcatakely, had a dinosaur-like facial bone structure, but a modern-looking face.
The addition of a $555 billion company prone to huge price swings is so daunting that S&P is considering adding Tesla’s weight over two separate trading days.
To those who saw it in its very first theatrical run, the opening crawl at the very top of the original 1977 “Star Wars” film automatically dispelled any notions about cosmic civilizations and a linear march of time. We all got the reference to a “galaxy far, far away” at the outset, but “a long time ago” was all at once brilliant and mind-blowing.
Inherent in that notion is the idea that civilizations outside our own solar system have been living and dying since time immemorial. And the civilizations depicted in this bit of space cinema also appear to have become masters of their own galactic quadrants, if not their whole galaxy.
Yet here on parochial Earth, we are wedded to the linear march of time in a way that is not likely to change until the very far future. Here, we are guided by our own history of technological advancement in a way that extraterrestrial civilizations may find antiquated. They may already be inured to the fact that they are mere technological babes in the woods when compared to much more advanced civilizations they, themselves, may have encountered.