© Romeo Ranoco / Reuters Romeo Ranoco / Reuters U.S. health workers have been dealing with a shortage of N95 masks since March, when the coronavirus began to spread rapidly. A study of 29 types of masks used in healthcare settings found that expired and used N95s block coronavirus particles …
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Chemists discover ways to make new nitrogen products ‘out of thin air’
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A smooth movement of nitrogen has brought the world one step closer to making a range of useful products – from dyes to pharmaceuticals – from thin air. The discovery comes from a team of Yale chemists who found a way to combine atmospheric nitrogen with …
Read More »Here’s the message PIAA’s Bob Lombardi is sending to Dad. Gov. Tom Wolf as talks of an autumn-school season continue
The PIAA has opened its opening speech to Father Gov. Tom Wolf on why high school sports should take place this fall. In her message sent to Wolf on Tuesday, PIAA executive director Bob Lombardi announced that student-athletes will participate in athletics this fall, despite the PIAA ruling it. In …
Read More »Orlando Bloom ‘Doesn’t Even Notice’ Katy Perry is pregnant, she says
Orlando Bloom was on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on August 11 crying about how excited he is to have a daughter. He and Katy Perry are expecting their first child together, their first ever and his second after his son, Flynn. Perry has said that Bloom does not …
Read More »Google to Microsoft: Nice Windows 10 patch – but it’s incomplete
Google Project Zero (GPZ) refuses to give Microsoft further extensions when it launches a Windows 10 authentication startup, because it says that a patch provided by Microsoft in the August 2020 Patch Tuesday update is incomplete. One of the 120 security bugs that Microsoft released patches on Tuesday was CVE-2020-1509, …
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