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WIn June, I wrote a column under the heading: “A man stands between Joe Biden and the presidency of the United States: Mark Zuckerberg.” Trump, raging against the pandemic at the time, was following Biden in the polls, just as in 2016 he had been following Hillary Clinton. And yet, …

This article was originally published in The conversation. The post contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Ine Steenmans, Professor of Futures, Analysis and Policies, UCL Neil Morisetti, Vice Dean (Public Policy) Faculty of Engineering Sciences, UCL The United Arab Emirates (UAE) successfully launched its mission to …

The Vikings had smallpox and may have spread it wherever they ventured, scientists report. That conclusion stems from an examination of 1,400-year-old Viking skeleton teeth that contained extinct strains of smallpox. The researchers found that the genetic makeup of those strains differed from that of the modern smallpox virus eradicated …

GIGLIO ISLAND, Italy (AP) – Stranded on a small Italian island, a cancer researcher became increasingly alarmed to hear that, and then three more visitors became ill with COVID-19. Paola Muti prepared for a rapid spread of the coronavirus to the 800 close-knit islanders, many of whom she knows well. …