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Anti-inflammatories may aggravate Covid-19, France advises
French minister says patients should take paracetamol rather than ibuprofen or cortisone Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage French authorities have warned that widely used over-the-counter anti-inflammatory drugs may worsen the coronavirus. The country's health minister, Olivier Véran, who is a qualified doctor and neurologist, tweeted on Saturday: "The taking of anti-i
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Antibiotic kills bacteria that causes Lyme disease. After screening thousands of drugs, researchers have found one that completely eliminates the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, a study with mice shows. "This compound is just amazing, it clears the infection without a lot of side effects."
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Spain locks down 46m people to contain coronavirus surge
Drastic move comes as France closes shops and restaurants and US extends travel ban
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Trump Is Tested for Coronavirus, and Experts Ask: What Took So Long?
Federal officials are asking Americans for extraordinary vigilance against a new pathogen. President Trump has taken a different course, worrying scientists.
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Gold nanoparticles uncover amyloid fibrils
Scientists have developed powerful tools to unmask the diversity of amyloid fibrils, which are associated with Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. The scientists made the breakthrough by developing gold nanoparticles that combine with cryogenic transmission electron microscopy, to provide rapid and unprecedented images of fibrils.
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Scientists urge government to enforce social distancing now
Hundreds of scientists have supported an open letter pressing for 'more restrictive measures' to contain coronavirus Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Hundreds of scientists have written to the government urging immediate "more restrictive measures" be brought in to enforce social distancing, following the action plan it announced on Thursday. The 245 UK people support
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NHS and private hospitals join forces to fight coronavirus crisis
Ten more people in the UK die as hundreds of scientists warn that government's 'herd immunity' strategy is risking too many lives • Coronavirus – latest updates • See all our coronavirus coverage The NHS is to join forces with the private health sector this week in an emergency plan to combat the coronavirus crisis, as fears grow that publicly funded hospitals will soon be unable to cope with the
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Coronavirus Hot Zone: Research and Responses in the U.S. Epicenter
Scientific American contributing editor W. Wayt Gibbs reports from the U.S. epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, Kirkland, Washington. In this installment of our ongoing series, he talks with… — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Scientists warn UK's coronavirus response is inadequate
Open letters say more drastic 'social distancing' needed to avoid overwhelming hospitals
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Coronavirus Hot Zone: Research and Responses in the U.S. Epicenter
Scientific American contributing editor W. Wayt Gibbs reports from the U.S. epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, Kirkland, Washington. In this installment of our ongoing series, he talks with… — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Gold nanoparticles uncover amyloid fibrils
Scientists have developed powerful tools to unmask the diversity of amyloid fibrils, which are associated with Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. The scientists made the breakthrough by developing gold nanoparticles that combine with cryogenic transmission electron microscopy, to provide rapid and unprecedented images of fibrils.
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A novel biofuel system for hydrogen production from biomass
A recent study has presented a new biofuel system that uses lignin found in biomass for the production of hydrogen.
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NASA's Own Report Admits Its Non-SpaceX Rocket Is a Disaster
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Unique discovery in Erasmus MC: antibody against corona – Erasmus Magazine
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Ever since January, I've been thinking about some of the social and technological side effects of the COVID-19 panic/pandemic. Here are some things I meditated on
I've been saying these things to people since before the masses even claimed it was just the flu, let alone something to worry about. There will be massive, often permanent shifts in habits as more people get used to working from home. If working from home maintains itself as something desirable to both employers and employees, this could become the new normal once the pandemic passes. Greater de
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Global officials call for free access to Covid-19 research for both humans and AI
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Experts discover toolkit to repair DNA breaks linked to aging, cancer and MND
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Nations around the world risk are wasting $640 billion by continuing to prop up the coal industry. 60 percent of the world's coal power plants are generating electricity at a higher cost than renewable energy alternatives would offer, a report says.
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Cryptography Pioneer Seeks Secure Elections the Low-Tech Way. Ronald Rivest helped come up with the RSA algorithm, which safeguards online commerce. Now he's hoping to make democratic elections more trustworthy.
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Houston continues decadelong march to greener future. Houston has been purposefully going green for more than a decade. The municipal government gets 92% of all the power it uses in the buildings it owns from wind and solar
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The Future Of Energy Storage Beyond Lithium Ion
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This Week's Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through March 14)
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MIT's deep learning found an antibiotic for a germ nothing else could kill
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Can CRISPR Save the World? The Next Green Revolution
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Colorado River flow dwindles as warming-driven loss of reflective snow energizes evaporation. Annual mean discharge has been decreasing by 9.3% per degree Celsius of warming because of increased evapotranspiration, mainly driven by snow loss and a consequent decrease in reflection of solar radiation
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Medicine is getting to grips with individuality
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Climate change effects on water security pose a significant or higher risk to global security by 2040," according to the World Climate and Security Report 2020. "The international security community has a responsibility to prepare for and to prevent the security risks of climate change"
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"It feels post-apocalyptic": What it's like to be a flight attendant during coronavirus
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In Utah, Hydrogen And A Massive Salt Dome Are Winning The West For Renewable Energy. "Hydrogen could go from being wishful thinking to an essential part of California's push to reach 100 percent zero-carbon electricity."
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US Senators try to end encryption while Corona Virus Pandamic Looms
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Spiderman's lawyer is having you for dinner tonight
Spider researcher Jonathan Pruitt is accused by his coauthors of data manipulations, after 3 retractions they demand more. A lawyer's letter was supposed to stop that, but Pruitt tells me: "I'm happy for folks to engage in public discourse about my data integrity""
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For 75 Years, The US Had an 'Endless Frontier' of Science. Now It's Coming to an End
We've forgotten how much we need science.
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Australian Engineers Just Accidentally Solved a 58-Year-Old Quantum Mystery
This could be huge for quantum computing.
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Incredibly Rare Footage Shows a Dwarf Sperm Whale Spray Ink as It Flees an Attack
Yes, you read that right. A whale, not a squid.
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This Remote, Pristine Underwater Forest in South America Hasn't Changed in Decades
An amazingly preserved ecosystem.
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Live Coronavirus Updates and Coverage
Spain and France have announced drastic, countrywide restrictions, and the White House physician says President Trump's test came back negative.
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Here's Why We've Responded to Coronavirus So Wildly Differently to Climate Change
And what we can learn from it.
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Dave Turns to Hard Rock Mining | Gold Rush: Dave Turin's Lost Mine
Dave is confident that hard rock mining could be a life changing opportunity for his crew. Stream Full Episodes of Dave Turin's Lost Mine: https://go.discovery.com/tv-shows/gold-rush-dave-turins-lost-mine/ Subscribe to Discovery: http://bit.ly/SubscribeDiscovery Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoldRush/ https://www.facebook.com/Discovery Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gol
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US extends travel ban to UK and Ireland over coronavirus
Announcement comes as President Trump tests negative to the virus
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They Knew Saber-toothed Tigers Were Big. Then They Found This Skull.
The find suggests that the prehistoric predators might have been able to feed on even the most giant prey of the Pleistocene era.
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Brexit means coronavirus vaccine will be slower to reach the UK
And it will cost more here because of the UK pulling out of the European Medicines Agency on 30 December • Three experts explain why Brexit leaves the UK less able to respond to pandemic • Coronavirus – latest updates • See all our coronavirus coverage The UK faces having to wait longer and pay more to acquire a coronavirus vaccine because it has left the EU, health experts and international legal
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Ex-Obama official warns US health system faces 'tsunami' over coronavirus
Andy Slavitt, formerly Medicare and Medicaid administrator, tweets outline of threat after 'Trump's months-long denial' Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Hospitals in the US could be overrun by coronavirus cases in little more than a week, a former Obama administration senior health official has warned, fearing a "tsunami-like" escalation that would leave tens of thous
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Brexit threatens UK's ability to respond to a future pandemic
The coronavirus should remind us of just why international cooperation is so important in reducing the threat of infectious disease • Coronavirus – latest updates • See all our coronavirus coverage Brexit threatens the UK's ability to respond to the novel coronavirus and future pandemics The coronavirus pandemic could not have come at a worse time for the UK and its citizens. Just as UK governmen
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The 1,000 Caves of Mars
Want to seek shelter on Mars? There may be a lot of options, and we know where they are — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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What is a pandemic and does it change the approach to coronavirus?
The WHO has declared the Covid-19 outbreak to be a pandemic . But what does that mean? Coronavirus latest – live updates How to protect yourself from infection Declaring a pandemic has nothing to do with changes to the characteristics of a disease, but is instead associated with concerns over its geographic spread. According to the World Health Organization , a pandemic is declared when a new dis
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The great divide is between the well and the sick – as we're all learning | Nick Cohen
It's only when we run out of luck that we comprehend how precarious life can be Speaking to parliament in 1855 as the carnage of the Crimean war grew, the radical MP John Bright produced an imperishable image . "The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land, you may almost hear the beating of his wings." Death's wings are beating countless millions towards the world of the sick today. Yo
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Water-free way to make MXenes could mean new uses for the promising nanomaterials
Ten years after producing the first sample of the now widely studied family of nanomaterials, called MXenes, researchers have discovered a different way to make the atom-thin material that presents a number of new opportunities for using it. The new discovery removes water from the MXene-making process, which means the materials can be used in applications in which water is a contaminant or hamper
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UK cases top 1,100 as WHO questions virus approach
Death toll nearly doubles to 21 and US extends travel ban to Britain and Ireland
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Why the Fed dislikes negative rates
Evidence is not conclusive that such a change restores confidence and economic activity
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Meet Anthony Fauci, the epidemic expert trying to shape the White House's coronavirus response
The veteran government scientist has advised presidents for decades, but will the Trump Administration listen to him now?
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My autism led me to become a champion of outsiders
Charlotte Amelia Poe grew up knowing she was different. Now it's her mission – through her art and writing – to bring about change For artist and writer Charlotte Amelia Poe, 30, every day feels like a walk across a frozen pond. "It's how it's always been," she explains. "You're trying to navigate it and stay safe, but you're aware that at any moment the ice is likely to crack, and at that point
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What If the President Gets Sick?
D onald Trump acknowledged today that he has been tested for the coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19, but says he does not yet know the results. He told reporters at the White House that he took his temperature this morning and it was "totally normal." At the Conservative Political Action Conference and then at Mar-a-Lago, President Trump stood close to people known to be infected with
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A Sight
Last night I watched a documentary on war, and the part I carry with me today was the spectacle of a line of maybe 20 blinded soldiers being led, single-file, away from a yellow cloud of gas. That must be what accounts for this morning's brightness— sunlight slathered over everything from the royal palms to the store awnings, from the blue Corolla at the curb to a purple flower climbing a fence,
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Are Movies Getting Worse Because We Don't Have Warp Drive?
A lot of things are disrupting Hollywood, but not (actual) light-speed travel. Maybe it's time to rethink our priorities.
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Why Did the Wright Brothers Succeed When Others Failed?
They weren't trained as engineers—but they were raised to have an insatiable intellectual curiosity — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Spain Imposes Nationwide Lockdown to Fight Coronavirus
A day after an emergency was declared, government officials put in place sweeping restrictions on the public. Stay inside, residents were told.
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Fake news about Covid-19 can be as dangerous as the virus | John Naughton
We're fighting an 'infodemic' as well as a pandemic. A bit of online self-discipline is urgently required On 15 February the director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, addressed the Munich Security conference. At that moment, there were 66,000 cases of Covid-19 in China, and only 505 in the rest of the world. So most of us were probably still assuming that
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Coronavirus symptoms: what are they and should I see a doctor?
What is Covid-19, how does it spread, what are the symptoms, and at what point should you call a doctor? Coronavirus – live news updates Find all our coronavirus coverage here How to protect yourself from infection It is caused by a member of the coronavirus family that has never been encountered before. Like other coronaviruses, it has come from animals. Continue reading…
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Why Did the Wright Brothers Succeed When Others Failed?
They weren't trained as engineers—but they were raised to have an insatiable intellectual curiosity — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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This Virtual Library in Minecraft Gives a Voice to Censored Journalists
As governments around the globe crack down on journalistic freedom and censor their national press , Reporters Without Borders is working to deliver uncensored news to the public through an unlikely channel: an enormous library housed inside the popular block-building video game Minecraft. Even in the most restrictive countries where news is censored across the web — like China's crackdown on the
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These Lab Animals Will Help Fight Coronavirus
Scientists are ramping up the breeding of lab mice as well as the testing of primates and other animals, but it all takes time.
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Coronavirus: who's most at risk, what we can do and will we see a vaccine soon?
Dr Tom Wingfield of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine answers our questions on Covid-19 • Coronavirus latest updates • See all our coronavirus coverage What is the best way to strengthen the immune system? The answer to this question is straightforward: the normal approach to healthy living. Have a balanced diet, try to get as much sleep as you can, exercise, don't overwork. If you smoke, try
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Weekend reads: Museum director sues after suspension; Nobelist 'embroiled in research scandal;' spider biologist lawyers up after retractions
Before we present this week's Weekend Reads, a question: Do you enjoy our weekly roundup? If so, we could really use your help. Would you consider a tax-deductible donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Thanks in advance. The week at Retraction Watch featured: a three-part series on what happened when some researchers tried … Continue reading
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Coronavirus puts the brake on America's gas-guzzling ways
World's largest petrol market contracts as workers are told to stay at home
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Elite Hackers Are Using Coronavirus Emails to Set Traps
Plus: A Comcast blunder, a Clearview AI lawsuit, and more of the week's top security news.
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Space Photos of the Week: Pretty Planets, Gorgeous Galaxies
Some cosmic catharsis for all the coronavirus-related anxiety you might be feeling at the moment.
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The Man Who Saw the Pandemic Coming – Issue 83: Intelligence
Dennis Carroll doesn't mean to sound callous when he says the coronavirus outbreak was predictable. And he doesn't. He sounds sympathetic to people frightened by the outbreak. He has been an eyewitness to people around the world suffering from similar viruses. Most of all, Carroll sounds authoritative. For decades, Carroll has been a leading voice about the threat of zoonotic spillover, the trans
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This Week's Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through March 14)
MEDICINE Flattening the Coronavirus Curve Siobhan Roberts | The New York Times "The ideal goal in fighting an epidemic or pandemic is to completely halt the spread. But merely slowing it—mitigation—is critical. This reduces the number of cases that are active at any given time, which in turn gives doctors, hospitals, police, schools and vaccine-manufacturers time to prepare and respond, without b
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Does Seed Cycling Help Balance Hormones?
A newly trendy nutrition practice called seed cycling is said to help balance female hormones and curb hormonal symptoms. Does science support the claims? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Can a face mask stop coronavirus? Covid-19 facts checked
The truth about how you can catch coronavirus, who is most vulnerable and what you can do to avoid infection Coronavirus – latest news and updates What are the symptoms and should I see a doctor? How to protect yourself against coronavirus Wearing a face mask is certainly not an iron-clad guarantee that you won't get sick – viruses can also transmit through the eyes and tiny viral particles, know
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Coronavirus facts: is there a cure and what is the mortality rate of the virus?
Covid-19 essential guide: can it be caught on public transport, how is it different from the flu, and how sick will I get? Coronavirus – latest updates How to protect yourself against coronavirus Coronavirus symptoms: what are they and should I see a doctor? The Covid-19 virus is a member of the coronavirus family that made the jump from animals to humans late last year. Many of those initially i
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The Irresistible Drama of Becoming Who You Want to Be
Manshen Lo Hirokazu Kore-eda's new film, The Truth , ends as many of his films do, with a group of people walking. Some of them are related; some are not. Some know exactly where they're going and why; others are just tagging along, enjoying the exercise and the company. The person who seems most determined, surest of what she's doing, is a septuagenarian movie star named Fabienne (Catherine Dene
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The Elegant Mathematics of Social Distancing
Schools and sports leagues are shutting down. But experts say it's still safe for most people to shop for groceries and meet in small groups.
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Are Movies Getting Worse Because We Don't Have Warp Drive?
A lot of things are disrupting Hollywood, but not (actual) light-speed travel. Maybe it's time to rethink our priorities.
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Ugens debat: GM sætter strøm på
Bilproducenten GM vil lancere 13 el-modeller på fem år. Det fik de ikke mange point for blandt læserne på ing.dk.
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50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: March 2020
Lunar laser reflector; calling Mars; the pneumatic subway — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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The Very Special Triangles
A recent paper uncovers a unique pair of shapes — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Astronomers Just Found The First Ever Exoplanet That Swoops Outside The Galactic Plane
Freaking wild.
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Science Keeps Finding Links Between Autism And Gut Problems
Here's why that's important.
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Hunter-Gatherers Sit as Much as Us, But How They Sit Makes All The Difference
Your sofa is not your friend.
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Social Distancing Could Change Our Relationship With FaceTime
Karen Wright loves to sing to her three-month-old grandson, August. She croons Harry Belafonte's "Banana Boat Song": "Day-o, day-o, daylight come and me wan' go home." Sometimes she throws in a little Bob Marley, and dances along. Wright loves seeing August's eyes light up at the sound of her voice. Wright does this from more than 1,000 miles away. She lives in Tallahassee, and her grandson is in
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Ages Ago, Beads Made From Ostrich Eggshells Cemented Friendships Across Vast Distances
A new study shows that ostrich eggshell beads were more than just decorative jewelry for the hunter-gatherers in sub-Saharan Africa, as archaeologist Brian Stewart explains.
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Mouse Hunt: Lab Races To Grow Mice For COVID-19 Research
Coronavirus researchers need the right genetically engineered mice to test potential vaccines. But most of these mice have been on ice. One lab is breeding a new generation of mice to meet the demand. (Image credit: Aaron Boothroyd/The Jackson Laboratory)
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Telemedicine Is a Safety Valve for a Strained Health Care System
"Virtual visits" can be an effective way to decide who needs to be tested for Covid-19. But remote doctors can't diagnose or treat illness.
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Wahoo Fitness Kickr Smart Bike Review: For the Competitive
To take full advantage of this compact, high-performance indoor trainer, you'll need to be tech-savvy and have killer quads.
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Covid-19 Fears Shouldn't Trash Your Zero Waste Efforts
People worried about germs might be tempted to trade their reusable mugs and bags for single-use plastics. Environmental advocates say that's not any safer.
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Amid Social Distancing, Neighbors Mobilize Over Facebook
Social media has fomented a lot of division, but people are using it to strengthen their communities against the coronavirus pandemic too.
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Panic, Pandemic, and the Body Politic
Stopping an outbreak is never just a fight with nature. It's also a fight with culture.
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Why Elizabeth Warren Lost
Senator Elizabeth Warren, who ended her presidential campaign last week, was an unusually popular candidate among political journalists and white professionals with college degrees, so perhaps it's no surprise that I, too, like her a lot, despite our significant political and ideological differences. I like her intelligence, her range of experience, her energetic comportment, her ability to grasp
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Så tar du kål på coronavirus
Hjälper handsprit mot spridning av coronaviruset? Och hur effektivt är det i förhållande till att tvätta händerna med vanlig tvål och vatten?
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Reporting on coronavirus: 'fear is almost as great a threat as the disease'
Writers from China, Italy and the UK explain how we are cooperating to produce measured reporting on a global crisis I have overseen our coverage of the coronavirus outbreak in China, from when there were just a few cases of "unknown pneumonia" in Wuhan in December to the lockdown of Wuhan and other cities in late January, and most recently as Beijing has begun to declare victory over the virus,
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How You Should Get Food During the Pandemic
A couple of weeks ago, as the possibility of the looming coronavirus pandemic began to settle in for most Americans, many people started preparing to ward off the virus by thinking about personal hygiene. Because advice about the efficacy of hand-washing and personal sanitization came early, Americans invaded big-box stores across the country to stock up on hand sanitizer, disinfectant wipes, can
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Australia's Fire-Ravaged Forests Are Recovering. Ecologists Hope It Lasts
After devastating fires, there are signs of regrowth across much of eastern Australia. But there's also concern that a changing climate may alter some of the country's unique landscapes forever. (Image credit: Nathan Rott/NPR)
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As The Pandemic Spreads, Will There Be Enough Ventilators?
In severe cases of COVID-19, as lungs become inflamed, membranes that transfer oxygen into the blood can become blocked. Some hospitalized patients need mechanical breathing support to recover. (Image credit: Taechit Taechamanodom/Getty Images)
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They Say Coronavirus Isn't Airborne—but It's Definitely Borne By Air
The word "airborne" means different things to different scientists, and that confusion needs to be addressed.
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17 Best Pi Day Tech Deals: Laptops, Tablets, Games, and Gear
Grab a pizza for 3.14 and check out the best discounts we've found on a bunch of indoor and outdoor gear.
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How Long Does the Coronavirus Last on Surfaces?
Researchers looked at how long the virus can survive on cardboard, plastic, and stainless steel, as well as after being aerosolized and suspended in midair.
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AI Is Coming for Your Most Mind-Numbing Office Tasks
Routine work, like cutting and pasting between documents, is increasingly being automated. But for now, there's little artificial intelligence involved.
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Virtuel Whitney går på scenen i Forum
PLUS. Otte år efter sin død kommer Whitney Houston til København. 16 numre opfører hun – som 'hologram'.
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TV industry braces for pain as advertisers and sports bodies press pause
Broadcasters set to be hit hard despite virus boosting viewing figures as people stay at home
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Energy and alternative funds lead year's worst performers
State Street, Invesco and BlackRock offerings hit by coronavirus and oil price war
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To prevent coronavirus don't touch your face – but how can you avoid it?
In the fight against the new coronavirus there's one simple measure we can all take but that to many of us may sound almost impossible – we need to stop touching our faces. Stop touching your face to reduce your chances of catching coronavirus, experts say. Tactics include wearing woolly gloves and an app that sounds a warning if your hand moves to your face. But face-touching is an instinctive r
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America Is Acting Like a Failed State
A global pandemic is a mandatory exam in national competence. It is a test for individuals, who have to change their life and withdraw from public events to slow the spread of a disease through crowds and social networks. It is a test for companies, which must change their protocols to protect their employees, sometimes by banishing them from the office. It is a test for institutions, which must
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How Canada's 'Minister of Everything' Sees the World
Canadian news sources have been calling the country's deputy prime minister, Chrystia Freeland, the " minister of everything " for months. The recent spread of the coronavirus has only given that title more weight. A week ago, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made Freeland the overseer of the federal response to the pandemic. And now, with Trudeau entering a 14-day quarantine after his wife, Sophie
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Shakespeare Wrote His Best Works During a Plague
As with everything that the coronavirus leaves in its wake, the suspension of operations by most major theaters around the country feels surreal—though surely both inevitable and necessary—and follows yesterday's announcement that Broadway will turn off its lights for at least the next month. Only two days prior, the producer Scott Rudin had offered $50 discount tickets to his Broadway shows, inc
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The Complicated Truth About Public Closings
Two days ago—an eon in coronavirus time—the Broadway producer Scott Rudin announced that tickets to some hit shows, including The Book of Mormon and West Side Story , would be available for just $50. "This is an unprecedented opportunity," he said, "for everyone to see a show that they otherwise might not have had easy and affordable access to." In the midst of the great flu pandemic of 1918, a y
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Perfectionism wastes everyone's time. Here's how.
According to business psychologist and consultant Melanie Katzman, being a maximizer, or someone who seeks and over works in pursuit of perfection, is a waste of time, energy, and resources. Completion and perfection are often not synonymous, and it is possible to continue tweaking something long after it is done. A desire to demonstrate expertise can overcomplicate the work and muddle the messag
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As China Cracks Down on Coronavirus Coverage, Journalists Fight Back
The Communist Party is trying to fill the airwaves with positive stories about its battle against the virus. Chinese reporters, buoyed by widespread calls for free speech, are resisting.
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There's a Pandemic. Four States Are Holding Elections Tuesday Anyway.
Three days from now, millions of voters in Arizona, Illinois, Florida, and Ohio will grasp the same door handles, drag their fingers across the same touch-screen voting machines, and wait in long lines with dozens of other people. All four states have reported multiple cases of the coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19. It's a major health risk "to have people coming together in large nu
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2003: Sars vil udvikle sig til en global epidemi
Sygdommen vækker skræk og rædsel blandt virologer, fordi den ikke blot rammer udsatte grupper i geografisk begrænsede områder og har relativt høj dødelighed.
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Religious festivals cancelled or scaled back due to coronavirus
All major world religions are limiting large gatherings and physical contact to halt transmission of Covid-19 Events to mark important religious festivals could be cancelled or curtailed in the coming weeks because of the coronavirus crisis. Next month, most of the world's major religions have festivals involving large gatherings of people. Easter is on 12 April (a week later for Eastern Orthodox
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Apple shuts all stores outside China on coronavirus fears
Tim Cook made the decision after noting Beijing's efforts to contain the outbreak
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Coronavirus: US travel ban on Europe begins as many countries step up containment
Saudi Arabia suspends all international flights, New Zealand introduces quarantine for almost all arrivals The travel ban from Europe to the United States has come into force, as a growing number of countries across the world ramp up their efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus. President Trump's travel ban on the 26 countries of the Schengen area began as part of stepped up efforts by his
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The singleton's search for love in the time of coronavirus | Elle Hunt
Dating has always carried risks, but now the stakes for 'putting yourself out there' are higher than ever In opposition to the smug marrieds, we singletons have always liked to position ourselves on the frontline of life, squaring off against creeps and weirdos in our valiant search for love. Already shut out of the property market and two-for-one meal deals, we're now unfairly burdened by corona
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All new jury trials in Victoria to be suspended amid coronavirus crisis
Concern over large gathering of potential jurors for empanelment sees chief justice announce drastic measure Courts across the state of Victoria in Australia will immediately suspend all future jury trials in a bid to contain the spread of Covid-19. The drastic measure will apply to the county and supreme courts. Supreme court chief justice Anne Ferguson said all new jury trials would be suspende
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Populism Is Meaningless
O ne spring weekend , dozens of academics from around the world gathered at the London School of Economics with an ambitious goal: to define populism . None were under any illusions about how difficult this challenge would be. "The term continues to be used in many different ways," one participant observed , noting its association with issues as disparate as McCarthyism in the United States and M
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Alternate Activation of Two Brain Systems Tied to Consciousness: Imaging reveals how cyclical patterns of brain activity differ between conscious and unresponsive individuals
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How Meditation Reprograms Your Mind
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Taking part in nature-focused activities, which can be delivered at low cost in the local area, improves children's mood and wellbeing.
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Coronavirus Live Updates: House Passes Aid Package; Apple to Shut Stores Outside China
The House measures include free virus testing for those who lack insurance. New Zealand's prime minister has announced that everyone entering the country must isolate themselves for 14 days.
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Ljudföroreningar stressar krabbor
Strandkrabbor förlorar förmågan att kamouflera sig och att reagera på fara när de kontinuerligt utsätts för båtljud, visar ny forskning.
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Sveriges insekter har räknats
Nyligen avslutades den största insamlingen av svenska insekter som någonsin gjorts. Många nya arter hittades och fortfarande finns det mer att upptäcka.
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Protecting DNA origami for anti-cancer drug delivery
Scientists coated octahedral-shaped DNA origami with peptoids that help protect the nanostructures in physiological environments relevant to biomedical applications including anti-cancer drug delivery.
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Italians sing patriotic songs from their balconies during coronavirus lockdown
Neighbours from Naples to Tuscany make harmonies across empty streets to lift spirits and pass the time during quarantine Italians have been singing from their balconies across the country, in an effort to boost morale during its nationwide lockdown that began this week, due to Covid-19. Videos of Italian neighbours singing together have been appearing on social media after Italy's prime minister
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Can traumatic memories be erased?
Tokyo, Japan – Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered that Drosophila flies lose long-term memory (LTM) of a traumatic event when kept in the dark, the first confirmation of environmental light playing a role in LTM maintenance. The team also identified the specific molecular mechanism responsible for this effect. LTMs are notoriously difficult to erase; this work may lead t
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Traders learn to adapt to home working
Remote connections to typically bustling trading floors pose liquidity problems
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Will cruise ships survive and what will be left of them?
It is no surprise that virus-hit Carnival is the FTSE's worst performer this year
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Trump's coronavirus connections
Meet the people in the US president's circle who have come into contact with Covid-19
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Special Report: COVID-19 – What You Need To Know About Coronavirus
Host Lulu Garcia-Navarro shares some of NPR's best practical and explanatory reporting on coronavirus in a single special report. (Image credit: Michael Dwyer/AP)
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Christmas Island: 'A giant robber crab stole my camera'
Crabs on Australia's Christmas Island are suspected of pinching some high-priced equipment.
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Coronavirus latest updates: Trump may extend US travel ban, Australia warns disease may not peak for months
Trump declares national emergency; Ivanka Trump begins working from home; WHO says Europe is at centre of pandemic. Follow live news Queen forced to cancel engagements for first time Spain to enter state of emergency as EU nations step up measures How many will die of coronavirus in the UK? Social distancing: is it risky to go to the pub or gym? Share your experiences 2.39am GMT We are just getti
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Climate change: Will planting millions of trees really save the planet?
From Greta Thunberg to oil firms, people are pushing for more trees to be planted – but why?
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New Zealand cancels Christchurch attacks memorial due to coronavirus fears
Prime minister Jacinda Ardern says if there was a case of Covid-19 at the event, it would be too difficult to trace New Zealand has called off a national remembrance service marking the one-year anniversary of the attack on Christchurch mosques, due to concerns over the coronavirus outbreak. The event, which was to be held in Christchurch on Sunday, was expected to attract a large crowd, with man
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Laminarin is a major molecule in the marine carbon cycle [Environmental Sciences]
Marine microalgae sequester as much CO2 into carbohydrates as terrestrial plants. Polymeric carbohydrates (i.e., glycans) provide carbon for heterotrophic organisms and constitute a carbon sink in the global oceans. The quantitative contributions of different algal glycans to cycling and sequestration of carbon remain unknown, partly because of the analytical challenge…
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Imaging local genetic influences on cortical folding [Neuroscience]
Recent progress in deciphering mechanisms of human brain cortical folding leave unexplained whether spatially patterned genetic influences contribute to this folding. High-resolution in vivo brain MRI can be used to estimate genetic correlations (covariability due to shared genetic factors) in interregional cortical thickness, and biomechanical studies predict an influence of…
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COST1 regulates autophagy to control plant drought tolerance [Plant Biology]
Plants balance their competing requirements for growth and stress tolerance via a sophisticated regulatory circuitry that controls responses to the external environments. We have identified a plant-specific gene, COST1 (constitutively stressed 1), that is required for normal plant growth but negatively regulates drought resistance by influencing the autophagy pathway. An…
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EHD2-mediated restriction of caveolar dynamics regulates cellular fatty acid uptake [Physiology]
Eps15-homology domain containing protein 2 (EHD2) is a dynamin-related ATPase located at the neck of caveolae, but its physiological function has remained unclear. Here, we found that global genetic ablation of EHD2 in mice leads to increased lipid droplet size in fat tissue. This organismic phenotype was paralleled at the…
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A key mammalian cholesterol synthesis enzyme, squalene monooxygenase, is allosterically stabilized by its substrate [Biochemistry]
Cholesterol biosynthesis is a high-cost process and, therefore, tightly regulated by both transcriptional and posttranslational negative feedback mechanisms in response to the level of cellular cholesterol. Squalene monooxygenase (SM, also known as squalene epoxidase or SQLE) is a rate-limiting enzyme in the cholesterol biosynthetic pathway and catalyzes epoxidation of squalene….
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NETosis proceeds by cytoskeleton and endomembrane disassembly and PAD4-mediated chromatin decondensation and nuclear envelope rupture [Immunology and Inflammation]
Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) are web-like DNA structures decorated with histones and cytotoxic proteins that are released by activated neutrophils to trap and neutralize pathogens during the innate immune response, but also form in and exacerbate sterile inflammation. Peptidylarginine deiminase 4 (PAD4) citrullinates histones and is required for NET formation…
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Inhibition mechanisms of AcrF9, AcrF8, and AcrF6 against type I-F CRISPR-Cas complex revealed by cryo-EM [Biophysics and Computational Biology]
Prokaryotes and viruses have fought a long battle against each other. Prokaryotes use CRISPR–Cas-mediated adaptive immunity, while conversely, viruses evolve multiple anti-CRISPR (Acr) proteins to defeat these CRISPR–Cas systems. The type I-F CRISPR–Cas system in Pseudomonas aeruginosa requires the crRNA-guided surveillance complex (Csy complex) to recognize the invading DNA. Although…
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Impact of international travel and border control measures on the global spread of the novel 2019 coronavirus outbreak [Population Biology]
The novel coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) in mainland China has rapidly spread across the globe. Within 2 mo since the outbreak was first reported on December 31, 2019, a total of 566 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS CoV-2) cases have been confirmed in 26 other countries. Travel restrictions and border control…
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Targeted inhibition of gut bacterial {beta}-glucuronidase activity enhances anticancer drug efficacy [Microbiology]
Irinotecan treats a range of solid tumors, but its effectiveness is severely limited by gastrointestinal (GI) tract toxicity caused by gut bacterial β-glucuronidase (GUS) enzymes. Targeted bacterial GUS inhibitors have been shown to partially alleviate irinotecan-induced GI tract damage and resultant diarrhea in mice. Here, we unravel the mechanistic basis…
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ATP- and voltage-dependent electro-metabolic signaling regulates blood flow in heart [Physiology]
Local control of blood flow in the heart is important yet poorly understood. Here we show that ATP-sensitive K+ channels (KATP), hugely abundant in cardiac ventricular myocytes, sense the local myocyte metabolic state and communicate a negative feedback signal-correction upstream electrically. This electro-metabolic voltage signal is transmitted instantaneously to cellular…
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Functional cooperation of the glycine synthase-reductase and Wood-Lȷungdahl pathways for autotrophic growth of Clostridium drakei [Systems Biology]
Among CO2-fixing metabolic pathways in nature, the linear Wood–Ljungdahl pathway (WLP) in phylogenetically diverse acetate-forming acetogens comprises the most energetically efficient pathway, requires the least number of reactions, and converts CO2 to formate and then into acetyl-CoA. Despite two genes encoding glycine synthase being well-conserved in WLP gene clusters, the…
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Adversarial alignment enables competing models to engage in cooperative theory building toward cumulative science [Perspectives]
Crises in science concern not only methods, statistics, and results but also, theory development. Beyond the indispensable refinement of tools and procedures, resolving crises would also benefit from a deeper understanding of the concepts and processes guiding research. Usually, theories compete, and some lose, incentivizing destruction of seemingly opposing views….
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Rbm24 controls poly(A) tail length and translation efficiency of crystallin mRNAs in the lens via cytoplasmic polyadenylation [Developmental Biology]
Lens transparency is established by abundant accumulation of crystallin proteins and loss of organelles in the fiber cells. It requires an efficient translation of lens messenger RNAs (mRNAs) to overcome the progressively reduced transcriptional activity that results from denucleation. Inappropriate regulation of this process impairs lens differentiation and causes cataract…
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A little history goes a long way toward understanding why we study consciousness the way we do today [Perspectives]
Consciousness is currently a thriving area of research in psychology and neuroscience. While this is often attributed to events that took place in the early 1990s, consciousness studies today are a continuation of research that started in the late 19th century and that continued throughout the 20th century. From the…
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Hox genes maintain critical roles in the adult skeleton [Genetics]
Hox genes are indispensable for the proper patterning of the skeletal morphology of the axial and appendicular skeleton during embryonic development. Recently, it has been demonstrated that Hox expression continues from embryonic stages through postnatal and adult stages exclusively in a skeletal stem cell population. However, whether Hox genes continue…
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A pair of esterases from a commensal gut bacterium remove acetylations from all positions on complex {beta}-mannans [Biochemistry]
β-mannans and xylans are important components of the plant cell wall and they are acetylated to be protected from degradation by glycoside hydrolases. β-mannans are widely present in human and animal diets as fiber from leguminous plants and as thickeners and stabilizers in processed foods. There are many fully characterized…
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Vibrational exciton nanoimaging of phases and domains in porphyrin nanocrystals [Chemistry]
Much of the electronic transport, photophysical, or biological functions of molecular materials emerge from intermolecular interactions and associated nanoscale structure and morphology. However, competing phases, defects, and disorder give rise to confinement and many-body localization of the associated wavefunction, disturbing the performance of the material. Here, we employ vibrational excitons
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Parcellation of the striatal complex into dorsal and ventral districts [Neuroscience]
The striatal complex of basal ganglia comprises two functionally distinct districts. The dorsal district controls motor and cognitive functions. The ventral district regulates the limbic function of motivation, reward, and emotion. The dorsoventral parcellation of the striatum also is of clinical importance as differential striatal pathophysiologies occur in Huntington's disease,…
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Tree planting: 'I want to plant one million'
At top speed, Canadian Shelby Barber can plant more than 4,000 trees a day.
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Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board
Bill Gates Microsoft
Microsoft's founder has been slowly inching away from his company. Now Gates has stepped down from the board seat he held for 34 years.
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What Is a Quarantine?
Quarantines can slow the spread of novel bugs like this coronavirus. But there's a right way to do them—and some very, very wrong ways.
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Coronavirus: Why is the UK not shutting schools like other countries?
The government's top scientists are ploughing a different furrow to that of many other countries.
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Trump Caught Google Off Guard With a Bogus Coronavirus Site Announcement
Google's not making a nationwide coronavirus testing website. And the company had no idea the president would say it was.
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China goes on offensive over coronavirus narrative
Official points finger at US army as Beijing tries to shift blame on to Washington
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Why do dozens of diseases wax and wane with the seasons—and will COVID-19?
Scientists are unraveling why each pathogen has its own calendar
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Flattening A Pandemic's Curve: Why Staying Home Now Can Save Lives
From school closures to event cancellations, the disruptions are real — and vital. It's all to slow the spread of coronavirus so hospitals don't get so overwhelmed that they can't treat the sickest. (Image credit: Connie Hanzhang Jin/NPR)
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Coronavirus With a Baby: Here's What Parents Need to Know
Children seem to be less at risk, but there are still things to prepare.
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Those Who Recover From Coronavirus Can Be Left With Reduced Lung Function, Say Doctors
Patients could see 20 to 30% less lung function.
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Physicists Just Got The Most Accurate Estimate Yet For The True Size of Neutron Stars
The densest objects in the Universe.
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Thriving 'Neuron Nurseries' Have Been Found Inside The Adult Human Nose
More evidence of neurogenesis after childhood.
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The Art of Socializing During a Quarantine
Recently, several hundred thousand, if not millions, of Americans have started working remotely , at the behest of their employers and in the interest of limiting the spread of the coronavirus. And for the foreseeable future, a group much bigger than that will, in accordance with encouragements to practice social distancing, start socializing remotely as well. Earlier this week, my colleague Kait
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As Europe Shuts Down, Britain Takes a Different, and Contentious, Approach
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has largely kept Britain open, opting for more targeted measures, a strategy that has startled some epidemiologists.
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Cambodia's garment industry hangs by a thread
Factories face idling 160,000 workers as coronavirus cuts China textile supply
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Jack Ma Offers to Supply the US With Covid-19 Tests and Masks
The donation from the Alibaba cofounder cleverly highlights the weakness in Washington's response to the pandemic.
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Hope for a new permanent magnet that's cheap and sustainable
Scientists have made a breakthrough in the search for a new, sustainable permanent magnet.
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Trump Declares National Emergency—but Also 'I Don't Take Responsibility'
The story has shifted from "it's not a problem" to "it's not my problem."
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Did an experimental drug help a U.S. coronavirus patient?
A California physician describes a recent use of a drug now in trials for COVID-19
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Behavioural scientists form new front in battle against coronavirus
Experts look at role of psychology in public responses to idea of quarantine Coronavirus – latest news As epidemiologists work round the clock to calculate the mortality rate of Covid-19, its ease of transmission and other vital statistics, a different group of experts are interrogating the role that human psychology could play in the unfolding pandemic. The government's new measures, its experts
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The Ticket: This Isn't Trump's Katrina
Political crises are all alike, but disasters are all disastrous in their own ways. If staff writer Vann R. Newkirk II could, he would stop every mention of "so-and-so's Katrina." After the ubiquitous -gate suffixing of post-Nixon scandals, President Bush's infamous mishandling of the 2005 hurricane and its aftermath may be America's most pervasive political metaphor today. But while the impulse
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2020 Time Capsule #3: 'I Don't Take Responsibility at All'
This afternoon, on the heels of a widely panned formal Oval Office address, Donald Trump assembled a group of scientific and corporate leaders to talk about dealing with the coronavirus. You can watch the whole thing on the White House YouTube channel. I suspect that we'll see one line from this conference played frequently in the months ahead. You can watch it starting at around 1:22:00 , when r
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Johnson U-turns on virus with steps to ban mass events
Legislation will be tabled next week after pressure for more action to fight epidemic
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Working from home provides a window to the soul
In this era, the new workplace divides are forged by a glimpse into your colleagues' houses
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Weatherwatch: how can we avoid a mighty pile-up in space?
Debris from thousands of disused satellites is in orbit around Earth. It can be buffeted around by space weather. We need better forecasts What's the weather like in Earth's upper atmosphere today? Most of us only care about how the weather feels on the Earth's surface, but understanding "space weather" is becoming increasingly important. That's because small changes in space weather can buffet s
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Denmark, Poland and Czechs seal borders over coronavirus
EU states risk economic damage and shrug off Brussels warning against bans
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Canada moves to shore up economy with emergency rate cut
Ottawa also releases C$10bn in credit as it grapples with coronavirus and oil price crash
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Bacteria form biofilms like settlers form cities
Microbiologists have long adopted the language of human settlement to describe how bacteria live and grow: They "invade" and "colonize." Relations dwelling in close proximity are "colonies."
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Bacteria form biofilms like settlers form cities
Microbiologists have long adopted the language of human settlement to describe how bacteria live and grow: They "invade" and "colonize." Relations dwelling in close proximity are "colonies."
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Mercury's 400 C heat may help it make its own ice
It is already hard to believe that there is ice on Mercury, where daytime temperatures reach 400 degrees Celsius, or 750 degrees Fahrenheit. Now an upcoming study says that the Vulcan heat on the planet closest to the sun likely helps make some of that ice.
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This Alaskan town is a crucial stop on the Iditarod—for its pie
It all began back in the 1970s when Jan Newton, who ran a local restaurant, began cooking for mushers coming through town. (Jeff Schultz/SchulltzPhoto.com /) This story originally featured on Saveur . In the shadow of Alaska's Kuskokwim Mountains, nestled in a valley along the banks of a winding river, there's a town called Takotna with a population of a mere 49 hearty souls. Each March, this coz
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Corona-virus kan overleve på dørhåndtaget i op til tre dage: 'Håndvask og god hygiejne er vigtigt'
Covid-19 kan smitte via overflader, viser ny undersøgelse.
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Labs go quiet as researchers brace for long-term coronavirus disruptions
Fear of spreading COVID-19 puts studies on hold
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S&P 500's biggest one-day gain since 2008 helps trim weekly drop
Friday's big rise capped a week of heightened volatility in global financial markets
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Global Officials Call for Free Access to Covid-19 Research
Government science advisers in a dozen countries are asking scientific journals to make data on the disease more widely available.
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America Isn't Testing for the Most Alarming Coronavirus Cases
Morgan Thornberry, a 38-year-old organizer in San Diego, went to an urgent-care clinic earlier this week with a fever, a dry cough, and nausea. The symptoms had started the week before, on the day she was released from the hospital for an unrelated stay. She went to the clinic with the same question as, it seemed, everyone else: Was she sick with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronaviru
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At Last: Driver-Assist Terms Will Be Common Across All Cars
Adaptive cruise control radar illlustration (Mercedes) Here's a major step forward in helping car buyers understand the meaning of car technology buzzwords, especially the terms for advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS). This is a list of 19 terms primarily for single safety features that have described in as many as 40 different ways by various automakers. An industry-affiliated consortium h
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Facebook language changes before an emergency hospital visit
A new study reveals that the language people use on Facebook subtly changes before they make a visit to the emergency department (ED). A team of researchers provides more evidence that social media is often an unseen signal of medical distress and could be used to better understand the contexts in which patients seek care, such as during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
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Potential therapeutic agents, vaccines for COVID-19
Since the first reports of a new coronavirus disease in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, COVID-19 has spread rapidly across the globe, threatening a pandemic.
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Bacteria form biofilms like settlers form cities
Biofilms are composed of bacteria living in a densely packed and organized community. Research from Amauri J. Paula, Geelsu Hwang, and Hyun (Michel) Koo of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine paired high-level imaging tools with an algorithm to track a biofilm as it formed. Biofilm growth at multiple scales, they found, mimics aspects of how cities emerge from individual settl
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What Color Were Dinosaurs?
We know a lot about dinosaurs. But this question has stumped scientists for decades.
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'Slime Mold' Helps Astronomers Map the Universe's Dark Matter
The food-seeking behavior of a simple organism is helping astronomers trace the universe's vast cosmic web, dark matter and all.
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Researchers Dig Up 3,400-Year-Old Ball Courts in Mexico
The playing fields were hotspots for ancient Mesoamerican culture.
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First-time direct proof of chemical reactions in particulates
Researchers have developed a new method to analyze particulate matter more precisely than ever before. With its help, they disproved an established doctrine: that molecules in aerosols undergo no further chemical transformations because they are enclosed in other suspended particulate matter. Their findings will help to improve the understanding of global processes involved in cloud formation and
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Live Coronavirus Updates and Coverage
Stocks rose as President Trump said he was making $50 billion in emergency funding available. The House was set to vote on the relief plan on Friday evening.
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Longing for swing time to end
Mike Mackenzie's daily analysis of what's moving global markets
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Diagnosing hypertension in children
Study results call into question the utility of testing blood pressure load–the proportion of elevated blood pressure readings detected over 24 hours–for diagnosing hypertension in children.
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Resolving inflammation: Could it prevent memory loss in Down syndrome and Alzheimer's?
Resolvins are lipids that 'resolve' the inflammation that normally follows injury or disease, returning the body back to normal. Therapeutic administration of one such resolvin can halt memory loss in a common preclinical model of Down syndrome, a finding that could also be relevant to memory loss in Alzheimer's disease, report researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina and elsewher
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: Congress Isn't Ready for the Coronavirus
It's Friday, March 13. In today's newsletter: Why the U.S. is so behind on COVID-19 testing. Plus: The white-collar work-from-home reckoning, hastened by the viral outbreak. * « TODAY IN POLITICS » (EMANUELE CREMASCHI / GETTY / KATIE MARTIN / THE ATLANTIC ) The federal government's handling of the coronavirus outbreak has been far from textbook. Just over 14,000 Americans have been tested for COV
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Why Coronavirus Is Turning People Into Hoarders: A Q&A on the Psychology of Pandemics
How the coronavirus pandemic is impacting our mental health — and turning some of us into survivalists.
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How skin cells embark on a swift yet elaborate death
Scientists have identified the mechanism that allows skin cells to sense changes in their environment, and very quickly respond to reinforce the skin's outermost layer. The findings provide insight into how errors in this process might lead to skin conditions like psoriasis.
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How sperm unpack dad's genome so it can merge with mom's
Researchers discover the enzyme SPRK1's role in reorganizing the paternal genome during the first moments of fertilization — a finding that might help explain infertility cases of unknown cause.
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First-time direct proof of chemical reactions in particulates
Researchers have developed a new method to analyze particulate matter more precisely than ever before. With its help, they disproved an established doctrine: that molecules in aerosols undergo no further chemical transformations because they are enclosed in other suspended particulate matter. Their findings will help to improve the understanding of global processes involved in cloud formation and
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What can you do with spiral graph? Help understand how galaxies evolve
Researchers have developed a technique to accurately measure the winding arms of spiral galaxies that is so easy, virtually anyone can participate. This new and simple method is currently being applied in a citizen science project, called Spiral Graph, that takes advantage of a person's innate ability to recognize patterns, and ultimately could provide researchers with some insight into how galaxi
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How plants sound the alarm about danger
Just like humans and other animals, plants have hormones. One role of plant hormones is to perceive trouble and then signal to the rest of the plant to respond. A multicenter team is reporting new details about how plants respond to a hormone called jasmonic acid, or jasmonate. The findings could help researchers develop crops that are hardier and more able to withstand assault, especially in an e
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Call for older people in poor countries to be considered in global responses to COVID-19
Current guidance on coronavirus 'largely ignores' the implications for public health and clinical responses in light of those most at risk, according to an international group of global health experts.
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How stem cells repair damage from heart attacks
Researchers have uncovered stem cell-activated mechanisms of healing after a heart attack. Stem cells restored cardiac muscle back to its condition before the heart attack, in turn providing a blueprint of how stem cells may work.
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C-sections: Moving beyond 'defensive medicine'
A new study shows removing liability concerns slightly increases C-section procedures during childbirth.
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Johnson tries to keep Britain open for business
Prime minister listens to medical experts and trusts that herd immunity to Covid-19 develops
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Companies from Ford to Unilever send staff to work from home
Businesses around the world take unprecedented action to limit spread of coronavirus
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Facebook language changes before a trip to the E.R.
Language posted on Facebook becomes subtly more formal before people go to hospital emergency rooms, a new study shows. The finding suggests that social media language is an often unseen signal of medical distress and could serve as a way to better understand the context in which patients seek care, including during times of concern such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers recruited 2,915 patie
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Coronavirus FAQs: What's 'Flattening The Curve'? Should I Travel?
Should you take that trip? How long does the virus last on surfaces? And what does it mean to "flatten the curve?" (Image credit: Mehdi Taamallah/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Mars Rover Launch Delayed Until 2022 Over Software Tests And Coronavirus
The European Space Agency and Russia's Roscosmos planned for a July launch for the ExoMars. They said "the epidemiological situation in Europe" factored into the delay. (Image credit: European Space Agency handout/AP)
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Personalet er flaskehalsen i behandlingen af corona: Sådan vil myndighederne løse udfordringen
Corona-smitten spreder sig, og nu bliver udfordringen at skaffe personale, der kan stå parat i sundhedsvæsenet, når epidemien topper. Dagens Medicin spurgte nøglepersonerne i sundhedsvæsenet, hvordan de vil løse det problem.
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What causes an ice age to end?
Research by an international team helps to resolve some of the mystery of why ice ages end by establishing when they end.
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How much is coronavirus spreading under the radar?
Nature, Published online: 13 March 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00760-8 Three leading health officials talk about gauging the size of local outbreaks, and why containment strategies aren't futile yet.
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This brain balancing act allows consciousness
Your DMN and DAT neural networks cooperate by staying out of each other's way. FMRI scans reveal a surprising temporal dance. When both systems are at the same activity level, boom, you're unconscious. While consciousness remains "the hard problem" — as in what exactly is it? Where is it? — a new study published in Science Advances sheds surprising light on how the brain switches us from consciou
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The Week the Sports World Went Dark
The coronavirus has brought leagues to a halt when fans need them most.
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Tasmanian Devils Protect Bandicoots and Stop Invasive Cats
When Tasmanian devils flourish, so do the small mammals preyed upon by feral cats. Southern-Brown-Bandicoot.jpg Southern Brown Bandicoot Image credits: Luke Shelley/Shutterstock Technology Friday, March 13, 2020 – 15:45 Joshua Learn, Contributor (Inside Science) — According to new research, the devastating Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease can have downstream effects on smaller animals. This
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Will conversion therapy be banned in the U.S.?
Most medical and mental health organizations have condemned conversion therapy as injurious and lacking support of empirical evidence. Today, 19 states and many cities have passed laws protecting youths from the practice. However, lawsuits and pushback by religious organizations have limited what laws can be passed. Recent years have seen a monumental shift in conversion therapy's standing in soc
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Protecting Yourself From Coronavirus: Separating Truth From Misinformation
The coronavirus pandemic is changing fast, so it's crucial not to let false information get the better of you.
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United States Declares National Emergency Over the Coronavirus
U.S. President Donald Trump just declared a state of national emergency over the coronavirus outbreak currently sweeping the country and the world. "To unleash the full power of the federal government to this effort today, I am officially declaring a national emergency," Trump said during a Friday press conference , which started 30 minutes late. "National emergency," he added. "Two very big word
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How to keep kids excited to learn during COVID-19 school closures
As K-12 schools across the country announce temporary closures to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, there are things teachers and parents can do to keep students interested in learning at home, experts say. "I hope that, in addition to whatever worksheets they assign, teachers will tell kids, 'I want you to pick one project that you're really excited about and go deep,'" says Denise Po
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