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Chinese officials are hailing a visit by a team of experts sent to Beijing by the World Health Organization to investigate the source of the coronavirus as evidence that the country is a responsible and transparent global power. But the WHO investigation is likely to take many months and could …

Melted impact gap and surrounding context Credit: CNSA, CLEP and AIR The unusual glowing dark greenish-green substance in a crater on the other side of the moon has sparked widespread interest after its discovery by the Chang’e-4 rover in July 2019. A research team led by Prof. Di Kaichang of …

For the past 15 weeks, sleep is the only time that Catherine Davis is not thinking of Covid-19. © Eisenhower Health California hospitals struggle to keep up with rising Covid-19 patients Even then, she says that she wakes up sometimes with thoughts of “How long are we going to hold …

RANCHO MIRAGE, California. For the past 15 weeks, sleep is the only time that Catherine Davis is not thinking of Covid-19. Even then, she says that she wakes up sometimes with thoughts of “How long are we going to hold this? How long are we going to deal with this …

Photo Credit: Print Collector / Contributor / Getty Of Popular Mechanics A new analysis suggests that the rocks are likely to break in their Plato-assigned form: cubes. Platonic solids are 3D shapes that Plato also gave a “classical element” value. Participating scholar Gábor Domokos discovered the first true “straightened” gömböc. …