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Intel was founded 58 years ago today. (1968-now)

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John Glenn was born 105 years ago today. (1921-2016)

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Robert Hooke was born 391 years ago today. (1635-1703)

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Nicola Tesla was born 170 years ago today.

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Scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider announced the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson 14 years ago today.

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Howard Florey and Norman Heatley, the minds behind the medical use of penicillin, met for the first time 85 years ago.

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Leó Szilárd patented the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb 92 years ago today.

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William Herschel made his last telescopic observation 207 years ago today.

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Chines astronomers first recorded the supernova SN 1054 (Crab Nebula) 972 years ago today.

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NHS England will begin rewarding people who walk for '30 minutes a day' with discounts and other incentives, in an attempt to get people walking marathon lengths per month in 2027.

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July has begun.

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World Health Organisation Chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus heads to the DR Congo to oversee its recent Ebola outbreak:

"Ebola is back. Ituri province is bearing the brunt."

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Africa CDC raises concerns over new Ebola outbreak in Congo’s remote Ituri province as it claims 65 lives and 246 suspected cases recorded so far.

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Researchers at Columbia Climate School have discovered why Earth’s upper stratosphere cools whilst surface temperatures rise up. They cite a "Goldilocks zone" that widens as CO2 concentrations rise, allowing for cool efficiency.

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Asteroid 2026 JH2 (measuring between 50-100ft) will pass within 56,000 miles of Earth on Monday. It will be 4.5 times closer to the Earth than the Moon, but poses no impact threat.

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A thermoacoustic refrigerator. Yes it exists.

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is there a cold version of a microwave

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Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) has been officially renamed to Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS) with experts citing the old name as misleading and inaccurately suggesting that ovarian cysts are a defining feature.

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1661 - Johannes Hevelius observes the third transit of Mercury ever to be seen from his observatory in Danzig (Gdańsk).

(365 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘨𝘰 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺.)