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Five images taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE camera, launched 15 years ago, on August 12, 2005. Together as a rich source of images for research, MRO studies atmospheric temperatures, peers underground with radar, and detects minerals on the planet’s surface. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona …

Georgia must also step up testing and contact tracing statewide, the report said, and measures for testing and infection control should be expanded in nursing homes and other long-term facilities. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution received the recommendations of the Task Force Coronavirus Task Force for Georgia, dated August 9, from a …

A group of storms that swept through the Midwest this week have destroyed homes, demolished crops and left more than a quarter of a million people without power for days. Nearly 100,000 people in northern Illinois were still without electricity Thursday morning, according to ComEd, the utility that serves the …

A former top federal student loan official in the Trump administration says the system he oversees needs to be abolished and replaced. A. Wayne Johnson, who is now running as a Republican for a quote in the Georgia Senate after resigning in November 2019, wrote a letter urging the Senate …

Face masks play a critical role in helping to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus, en could save tens of thousands of lives in the US as everyone wore them in public, experts have said. Yes, some face masks are more protective than others. But that does not mean …