The Vaccines are here!

Yo! Time to take a break from your busy schedules, maybe go for a trip? Time to tick some items off your bucket list cuz the vaccine rollout is finally happening!! 🎉

💉 So far there are 12 vaccines that have passed the clinical trials & are available to use, while about 57 vaccine candidates are under development. Make sure you keep an eye on the 🚨 COVID-19 vaccine tracker 🚨

• The mRNA vaccines developed for COVID-19 basically tells our cells to create proteins that resemble the virus (a fake virus!). Then our immune system attacks these virus look-alikes to create immunity. Pretty smart 😎
• This also opens up many possibilities as we can customize mRNA to produce vaccine suitable for an individual's cancer cells. Yes, you heard it right! they opened up a possible treatment for cancer! 🤯
• India started Phase 2 of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout which targets over 10 crore people. Especially people in the age brackets above 60 years & people between 45 to 59 years with some pre-existing health conditions. Make sure you check the eligibility criteria & get your family members registered!

🔭 Two astronomers went looking for a supermassive black hole but ended up finding over five dozen small black holes packed together in a tight space as small as our solar system. Now the biggest question is, are all supermassive black holes formed by the merger of such small black holes? If we waited a few million years, we might find out!

🚀 Apollo in Real-Time lets you experience the events of the three Apollo missions (including the first moon landing 🌕) that happened between 1969 - 1972 in real-time directly in your browser. I almost felt like an astronaut 🧑🏽‍🚀

💰 A 10-second video was sold for 6.6 million dollars last week... wonder why someone would buy a digital video that can be easily copied? Well introducing non-fungible token (NFT) which is a token powered by blockchain that uniquely identifies a digital asset. Art collectors can now buy ownership of famous TikTok videos 📈

🏎 Electric cars accounted for 1/3rd of all US vehicles in the US back in 1900! Yeah you heard it right! in the 1900's! Read about the timeline of electric vehicles or watch this video by Our Changing Climate

🎥 Video of the week

mRNA vaccines, explained by Vox

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