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A black hole corona is a changing X-ray flash that emits a glow that can be seen hundreds of light years away. NASA / JPL-Caltech Seeing any cosmic object being devoured by a black hole is both exciting and downright scary. See the same black hole recreate what it had …

Launching more schools for Labor Day is perhaps the most critical. “You can’t have an open economy and closed schools,” said Strain. “State and local policymakers seem to want to have both at the same time and that is not an option. Workers cannot go to work in many cases …

Governor Brian Kemp said the measure violates his emergency orders that prohibit local leaders from increasing the state’s requirements to protect against the coronavirus. The lawsuit intensifies a dispute between Kemp and Bottoms after she introduced an order that failing to wear a mask within city limits is punishable by …

The increase in coronavirus cases has reached a new record. On Thursday, the US recorded more than 70,000 new cases of COVID-19, compared to 20,000 per day in June, according to aggregated data from Johns Hopkins University, the COVID Monitoring Project, and other independent estimates from the Washington Post. and …

One of the conspiracy theories that has plagued attempts to keep people informed during the pandemic is the idea that the coronavirus was created in a laboratory. But the vast majority of scientists who have studied the virus agree that it evolved naturally and crossed humans from an animal species, …