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1 Meet the Exoplanet LHS 475 b is almost precisely the size of Earth. It sits 41 light years away in the constellation Octans and is known as an “exoplanet” because it is outside our solar system. This week, NASA released the latest picture taken by the telescope, which captured a star-forming region known as NGC 346. It’s within a dwarf galaxy called the Small Magellanic Cloud, about 160,000 light years from the Milky Way—and it holds some important clues about life as we know it....

“We are going to be sending people down to the surface, and they are going to be living on that surface and doing science.” Read on to find out more about when that might happen and what needs to occur before humans set foot on the moon for the first time since 1972. RELATED: The 10 Most “OMG” Science Discoveries of 2022 1 “Living and Doing Science” The unmanned Artemis I began a 26-day mission this month, blasting off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida....

READ THIS NEXT: If You See This While You’re Driving, Call 911 Immediately, Police Warn. If you haven’t fallen victim to a scam, consider yourself lucky. Criminals will try to steal from you any way they can, and cars are a common target. On Aug. 1, police in Fairfax City, Virginia, issued a warning about fake parking tickets. According to a tweet from the Fairfax City Police Department (FCPD), the fake tickets are placed on the windshields of unsuspecting drivers—and they’re actually pretty convincing....

RELATED: Never Do This After Brushing Your Teeth, Dentists Warn. You’re often told to take more vitamin C, and for good reason. Whether you get it through food or a daily supplement, this powerful nutrient can boost your immune system, improve your memory, and enhance iron absorption. While vitamin C delivers these health benefits (and then some), too much vitamin C before a dental procedure may be asking for a mouthful of pain....

RELATED: If You’re Offered This on a Plane, Just Say No, Flight Attendants Warn. While you can’t predict what germs you may come in contact with on a plane, you should try to keep your seat and space as clean as possible. In fact, before taking your seat, you can sanitize the armrests as an extra precaution. But once you’ve finally gotten comfortable, there’s one particular precaution you should be taking throughout your entire flight, especially after you’ve touched your seat....

1 She Passed Away at 3:10 PM According to the death certificate, entered into the Scottish registry and released on Thursday, the Queen, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, passed away at exactly 3:10 in the afternoon on September 8. The time of her death is important for one reason. ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb 2 Most of Her Family Didn’t Make It In Time to Say Goodbye At the time she passed away, most of her close family were not with her....

For years, the Federal Communications Commission has been warning people: “Don’t answer calls from unknown numbers. If you answer such a call, hang up immediately.” The AARP also claims that “even just pressing a key or answering a question alerts scammers that they’ve hit on a ’live’ number, and they’ll call it again and again.” But according to the new research on anonymous robocalls from North Carolina State University, all of those ghosted phone calls may not have been saving you any grief after all....

RELATED: If You Ask This a Lot, It Could Be an Early Sign of Dementia, Doctors Say. There will always be differences of opinion when it comes to what’s actually funny. But according to a 2017 study, if someone isn’t laughing during appropriate points in a conversation or laughs at the wrong time, it could be an early sign of dementia.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb Researchers looked at 105 patients who had been diagnosed with dementia, along with 156 of their healthy family members....

When asked if a mask is effective when you wear it just below your nose, the doctors said: “No. A mask is not effective if it is worn below the nose, because respiratory droplets come from sneezing as well as coughing.” Wearing a mask or face covering has been proven by medical and public health experts as an effective way to slow the spread of COVID-19. Expert projections have even been updated to show that, if everyone were to wear a mask, tens of thousands of lives would be saved....

Oprah, who quarantined during the COVID pandemic with her partner Stedman Graham and two of her adult “daughter girls” from South Africa, took to her blog to discuss her experience with the COVID vaccine. Without mentioning exactly which vaccine she got, it’s clear it was either Pfizer or Moderna, the mRNA vaccines that require two doses—and she said she had “all the classic symptoms” after her second shot. “The first shot, I wanted to cry but didn’t, just from the overwhelming sense of relief....

1 “I’m Not Worth Your McDonald’s Money?” On Aug. 7, Carlton Funderburke, senior pastor at Church at the Well, delivered a sermon criticizing church members for not giving him a Movado watch he’d asked for. “This is how I know you’re still poor, broke, busted and disgusted, because of how you been honoring me. I’m not worth your McDonald’s money? I’m not worth your Red Lobster money? I ain’t worth your St....

RELATED: People Who Live Past 105 Have This in Common, New Study Says. Paul McCartney is known for many things, and a quick Google search would rack up millions of results. According to daughter Mary, however, there are two things about Paul you need to get into above all else: his mashed potato recipe and his eye yoga routine. While on the May 12 episode of the podcast Table Manners, Mary said that sometimes at the end of the night, after she’s had a couple of drinks, she Googles her dad’s eye yoga video from 2010....

1 Just A Regular Day At the “Office” On March 9, 1996, Templer was taking a group of six people down the Zambezi river when disaster struck. “I could go with the cliche ‘it was a day that started like any other’, but it didn’t. It started with a sense of foreboding,” Templer says. “A friend of mine who was supposed to be leading a canoe safari had come down with malaria....

Per an analysis by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, published in a July research letter in JAMA, prisoners are contracting coronavirus at a rate of 3,251 cases per 100,000 people, which means they are 5.5 times more likely to get COVID than those outside of prison. In the U.S. as a whole, the case rate is 587 cases per 100,000 people. RELATED: For more up-to-date information, sign up for our daily newsletter....

The month-long research, which was conducted at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Spain and published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, examined the cognitive skills of 27 young adults between the ages of 18 and 40 while playing Nintendo’s classic Super Mario 64. “People who were avid gamers before adolescence, despite no longer playing, performed better with the working memory tasks, which require mentally holding and manipulating information to get a result,” researcher Marc Palaus, PhD, writes in the published report....

1 The Couple Allegedly Want to “Tone Down” the Documentary According to a new report from Page Six, the couple are “desperate” to tone down their docuseries with the streaming giant, after the death of Queen Elizabeth. Sources from Netflix told the publication that the couple is “having second thoughts on their own story.” 2 Netflix Is Allegedly “Standing by the Filmmakers” However, their production team and the company isn’t down to backtrack on the project....

Now, in a new letter penned by the Prince in honor of Remembrance Sunday, he opens up about the “pain” he experienced when his mother died. Keep reading to learn more— and to explore secrets of the Royal Family, don’t miss these Biggest Royal Romance Scandals of All Time. 1 The Letter Was Written for the Charity Scotty’s Little Soldiers The purpose of the letter was to, through the charity Scotty’s Little Soldiers, support children who have lost parents while serving in the armed forces....

With Duchess Meghan by his side (the couple clutched each other’s hands tightly throughout the interview with Oprah), Harry took great pains to say his relationship with the Queen remains on solid ground. “I’ve spoken more to my grandmother in the last year than I have for many, many years,” he said. Harry’s revelation about his closeness with the Queen likely came as a surprise to royals fans because of all the drama surrounding the Sussexes’s final exit from royal life last month when Her Majesty made the decision to strip her grandson of his remaining military titles....

1 Meghan is Issues-Oriented Neil Sean, a royal expert with his own YouTube channel, has dubbed the Duke of Sussex a “house husband,” maintaining that his wife’s political aspirations are coming first. “As we’ve found out Meghan Markle says that she definitely will be going to Washington to support the causes that are close to her heart. While she said previously that she doesn’t demand or require a political career, it seems more and more that Meghan shines in the spotlight moving forward in a totally different avenue,” he said....

1 Harry’s Memoirs The buzz around Prince Harry’s upcoming tell-all isn’t dying down, even though there still isn’t an official publication date for the memoir. There is also concern about the Netflix documentary Harry and Meghan are filming, with insiders worried he might throw family members under the bus—including his brother William and sister-in-law Kate Middleton. “The New York Post has been saying this week that Netflix is putting pressure on them to come out with this docuseries by the end of the year to tie in with Harry’s memoirs which are due to be published before the year is out,” says royal editor Rebecca English....