Monthly Archives: July 2020

A Florida mother lost 2 children to Covid-19 in 11 days.

Monete Hicks’ son Byron and daughter Mychaela of Lauderhill had health problems but were well and “basically confined to their home,” he said. They then made a trip to Orlando just before he got sick, Hicks said. Byron, 20, had trouble breathing when he woke up on a Saturday in …

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Mini-Neptunes could be irradiated ocean planets

Many known exoplanets today are ‘super-Earths’, with a radius of 1.3 times that of Earth, and ‘mini-Neptunes’, with 2.4 Earth radii. The mini-Neptunes, which are less dense, were long thought to be gaseous planets, composed of hydrogen and helium. Now, scientists from the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille (CNRS / Aix-Marseille …

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Anthony Fauci to pitch in Yankees-Nationals game

This is a curve you may not want to flatten … Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, will launch the first pitch on Thursday when baseball returns in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The infectious disease expert will launch the opening day pitch …

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