Numerous states recently began reopening their economies, which could be fueling some of the youth bias, said Natalie Dean, an infectious disease epidemiologist in Florida, where new cases are reaching record levels. People in their 20s and 30s have returned to bars and beaches; Employees of working age have resumed …
Read More »WHO sees first results of COVID drug trials in two weeks
By Stephanie Nebehay and Josephine Mason. GENEVA / LONDON (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) should soon obtain results of clinical trials it is carrying out on drugs that could be effective in treating patients with COVID-19, its Director said on Friday. General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “So far, about …
Read More »“Birth of millions of years”: Hubble captures the fiery creation of a giant star cluster
Posted on July 3, 2020 in Astronomy, Science Most of the stars in the universe – including our life-giving Population 1, the main-sequence Sun, one of the more than 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, which formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago – are they formed a group of …
Read More »Dust cloud “Godzilla” described as “amazing” by NASA astronaut aboard the space station
June 27, 2020 Winds routinely blow clouds of Saharan dust out of West Africa and across the Atlantic Ocean in the summer. But the intensity and reach of a plume that left Africa in June 2020 was so great that it made internet meme makers buzz over a “Godzilla” cloud …
Read More »Moon richer in metals than previously thought – NASA
Plans to start extracting the Moon starting in 2025 became more attractive this week after a team from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) found evidence that Earth’s natural satellite it could, under its surface, be richer in metals than previously thought. Using data from the miniature radio …
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