A three-story building in Brooklyn that housed a gymnasium collapsed Wednesday afternoon, leaving one person injured and a huge pile of rubble and debris strewn across the street. The building at the corner of Court and Union streets in Carroll Gardens collapsed around 4:30 pm in the tony neighborhood. Authorities …
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What is group testing and how will it help fight the COVID-19 pandemic?
As the U.S. continues to see an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases, the country’s health officials are considering a new testing strategy to determine how many people have been exposed to the virus. Called group testing, the proposed strategy is to combine samples from several people and conduct …
Read More »Shrimp shells to produce electrodes for large storage batteries
The Spanish researchers’ proposal is to produce vanadium flow battery electrodes from chitin, a shrimp shell material. Credit: John Cameron / Unsplash A project by Spanish researchers and other collaborators from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests the use of chitin from shrimp shells to produce electrodes for vanadium …
Read More »Jonathan Irons was released from prison this week with the help of basketball star Maya Moore.
On Wednesday, Irons abandoned a free man, and Moore was one of the first to hug him. “Thank goodness it’s over,” Moore said in a video of the Irons launch he posted on his Instagram, captioned with the word “FREEDOM.” The two met in 1998, when Moore was just 16 …
Read More »This is where you can still buy them
Credit: Oliver Cragg / Android Authority Google has discontinued the Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL. The Pixel 4 series is the only range of smartphones that it sells now. You can still buy the Pixel 3a series from outside vendors. The 2019 Google mid-range smartphones have completed their successful …
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