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China has made anal COVID-19 swab mandatory for all foreign travelers coming into the country, a report said on Wednesday. The Times UK report states that the government claims that such tests provide greater accuracy than other screening methods for the virus. As part of the new travel requirement, there …

Scientists are using “letterlocking” to read sealed centuries-old letters. Nature Communications The contents of a handwritten European letter sealed for Years0000 will no longer be secret, thanks to technology that allowed scholars to look inside virtually without damaging a complexly constructed historical document. In a letter dated July 31, 1697, …

Doil rice | USA Today The 2020 hurricane season ends after a hurricane named Record 30 After six months and 30 hurricanes, the season of the most active Atlantic hurricane on record officially ended on November 30. USA Today Until now, it was uncertain whether space hurricanes even existed. The …

GUSAU, Nigeria (AP) – Hundreds of Nigerian girls abducted last week from a boarding school in the northwest of the country have been released, the state governor said on Tuesday as the West African nation faces an onslaught of school kidnappings. Girls 10 and older wearing light blue hijabs and …

The study, published Tuesday in the frontiers of psychiatry, looked at smartphone use among 1,043 students aged 18 to 30 at King’s College College London. The researchers asked students to complete two questionnaires on the quality of their sleep and smartphone usage, individually and online. Using valid 10-question standard standards …