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Delays in testing once again hamper COVID-19 response

Growing COVID-19 outbreaks in various states are depleting testing capacity across the country as people wait several days or even weeks to recover their results, causing another setback to the U.S. response to the pandemic. of months. Long response times are undermining the fight against the coronavirus, experts say, making …

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Watch SpaceX ships finally catch a full Falcon 9 rocket nose cone

SpaceX’s Ms. Tree spacecraft was originally called Mr. Steven. SpaceX SpaceX marked many boxes with its Monday’s launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the South Korean military satellite Anasis-II: Successfully deployed the satellite. She landed the first stage propeller on a drone in the ocean. She caught both halves …

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Scientists Accidentally Create ‘Impossible’ Hybrid Fish

The sturddlefish has a mix of genes from the Russian sturgeon and the American spoonbill. (Credit: Genes 2020, 11 (7), 753; https://doi.org/10.3390/genes11070753, CC BY 4.0) It shouldn’t have been possible, but it was: the birth of long-nosed, pointy-finned hybrids of Russian sturgeons and American spoonbills. Hungarian scientists announced in the …

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