San Francisco temporarily suspended next week’s planned reopens amid a surge in coronavirus cases, while Governor Gavin Newsom urged a southern California county to reinstate orders to stay home after a surge in positive tests for COVID-19 there. The city registered 103 new cases on Thursday, San Francisco Mayor London …
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Warner Bros. has once again delayed the release of the Christopher Nolan-directed film “Tenet” amid reported cases of the new coronavirus surge. The study announced the decision Thursday, emphasizing the need for flexibility. The science fiction thriller, starring John David Washington and Robert Pattinson, will now launch on Wednesday, August …
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US adults, adults, children, and Tsimane monkeys complete the recursive sequencing task. Credit: S. Ferrigno, Harvard University. Recursion, the computational ability to incorporate elements into elements of the same type, has been hailed as the intellectual cornerstone of language, tool use, and mathematics. A multi-agency team of researchers shows for …
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As they make reopening plans, many districts take into account the special needs of some students. In Seattle, where schools announced this week that their goal was to provide at least two days per week of in-person instruction to elementary students and one day to middle and high school students, …
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Paleontologists have identified a giant wombat-like marsupial that lived 25 million years ago (oligocene epoch) in what is now Australia. Named Mukupirna nambensisThe prehistoric creature was at least five times larger than living wombats and so different that researchers had to create a new family to accommodate it. An artist’s …
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