ASUNCION / SANTIAGO – Coronavirus cases in Latin America for the first time have overtaken combined infections in the United States and Canada, a Reuters count showed on Sunday, amid an increase in infections in Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Argentina. The rapid growth in the number of cases makes …
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California Governor Newsom Says State Has New Coronavirus Hot Spot – Deadline
Weeks after California Governor Gavin Newsom identified Imperial County as the most affected region in the state, he announced in his daily press conference that the state’s Central Valley was the new main area of concern. While the statewide 14-day average positive test rate is 7.5 percent, that rate in …
Read More »Scientists discover a brain mechanism that may explain why sleep helps you learn
By Society for Neuroscience July 27, 2020 A perineuronal network (red) in the mouse brain, surrounding a neuron that expresses Arc (green), a protein involved in memory processing. Holes in the perineuronal network may represent memory storage sites that are regulated during sleep. Credit: Pantazopoulos et al., ENeuro 2020 Changes …
Read More »New approach refines the constant and age of the Hubble universe
Credit: CC0 Public domain Using known distances of 50 galaxies from Earth to refine calculations on the Hubble constant, a research team led by an astronomer at the University of Oregon estimates the age of the universe at 12.6 billion years. The approaches to dating the Big Bang, which gave …
Read More »NFL can learn from MLB’s COVID-19 nightmare
Major League Baseball cardboard commissioner Rob Manfred has alienated his players, his union, and his lifelong fans, making it always unlikely that he would make peace with a virus. Manfred could be smart. He could work hard. You can surely speak intelligently on many baseball-related topics for hours. Well, many …
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