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Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone, a distinguished UC Irvine scientist who helped identify the potentially catastrophic threat to Earth’s ozone layer from manmade chemicals, passed away on 5th of November. He was 73.

The great scientist’s family didn’t release a cause of his death. William Kearney, the director of media relations for National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine, said he died unexpectedly at his Short Hills, N.J.-based home.

Owing to recent weather conditions of Massachusetts, arrival of the eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEE) has been reported in the state. The state's department of health informed one person has been infected with EEE.

Researchers have claimed that a data communication technology will soon enable large data transfers and high-definition video streaming between earth and moon. The researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory said the technology has high efficacy to establish such a connection between earth and moon.

Coral reefs have the ability to acclimatize to climate change, claimed Steve Palumbi, a marine biologist at Stanford University in California. The tropical Sun heats the water to a sizzling 35 °C in a shallow tidal lagoon off the coast of American Samoa for a few hours each day. But the Samoan lagoon still hosts courtyards of antler-like branching corals and mound corals the size of refrigerators. So, the question is how that could be possible without having got adapted to such temperatures.