Pokemon GO Credit: Niantic Magikarp show some love. The useless little flapping fish has been a fan favorite for years, and now Pokémon GO deserves the thing with a very own Community Day, continuing a trend by using Niantic with Kanto originals to fill in the calendar, because it’s probably …
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COVID-19 vaccine developer has promised results from early trial
GAITHERSBURG, MD – A Gaithersburg-based fax developer has released some promising results from early human research. Novavax Inc. said in a press release that his candidate for coronavirus vaccine – called NVX-CoV2373 – generated antibodies to fight the virus and was “generally well tolerated” in healthy adults. The phase one …
Read More »Canadian ice shelf larger than Manhattan crashes into the sea
This large ice sheet then drifted into the Arctic Sea, breaking further into two large pieces. This whole calf event – the scientific term for breaking ice cubes of glaciers – was captured by the Copernicus Sentinel satellite. The piece that broke off was about 80 square kilometers – larger …
Read More »8 bodies recovered after Marine landing craft sank from California
Authorities released the bodies Friday seven marines and a naval sailor who were killed when a Marine landing craft sank in hundreds of feet of water off the coast of Southern California, authorities said. The rest were found after underwater rescue operations following the sinking on July 30th. They will …
Read More »Outlook: 300,000 Americans died after December due to COVID-19
The U.S. death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic could reach nearly 300,000 on Dec. 1, according to a new forecast from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the School of Medicine at the University of Washington. The institute has been the source of influential, though not always …
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