Click to enlarge UNTIL NEXT TIME Shares closed lower on Friday amid concerns about the growing number of coronavirus cases in the United States and its impact on the economic recovery. Loading error The Dow closed at 730 points, or 2.8%. The S&P 500 fell 4.2% and the Nasdaq fell …

An Australian politician is being suspended from his party as security officials investigate alleged ties to the Chinese government. Authorities raided the home of Shaoquett Moselmane, a state politician with the opposition Labor Party, on Friday. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Australia’s national security agency ASIO is conducting an …

Darrell Keaton Sr., a 49-year-old black Democrat from Wausau, Wisconsin, several hours north of Perry, said the protests after Floyd’s death were monumental in changing views on structural racism in the United States. Finally, he said, it appears that whites are listening and participating in the protests. “We have spent …

An Ebola vaccine was administered to more than 300,000 people during the outbreak in northeast DRC. An Ebola virus outbreak in the Northeast Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that has been raging since 2018 has officially ended. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the government of the Democratic Republic …

A simulated phylogenetic tree. Time runs from top to bottom, and the nodes represent species, the lines represent DNA mutations associated with the gene being studied. Bifurcations signify speciation events. This tree has a complex structure but it is also fractal in a topological sense. Credit: Carl R. Woese Institute …