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After the expiration of the largest options in history, bitcoin ended its fifth week of bounces around the $ 9,000 price range. Bitcoin (BTC) was trading at around $ 9,180 at 20:00 UTC (4 pm ET), dropping nearly 1% in the past 24 hours. At 00:00 UTC on Friday (8:00 …

As COVID-19 has changed our lives, Dr. Peter Hotez, a coronavirus vaccine researcher, has become an increasingly familiar presence, a regular in Chronicle coverage and on national cable news channels. . He is the revered expert who clearly, and with increasing passion, explains the science of the virus and what …

San Francisco has slashed plans to advance the reopening next week, and Contra Costa County can do the same after both municipalities saw an increase in COVID-19 cases this week. Mayor London Breed announced that San Francisco would wait to enter Phase 3, which would have allowed the reopening of …

We all know that history has a habit of repeating itself, but the fact that we find ourselves in a global pandemic almost exactly 100 years after the last great sensation is almost felt in the nose. While the coronavirus outbreak differs from the Spanish flu pandemic in some important …

Scientists may be one step closer to discovering whether we are alone in the universe. Astronomers recently discovered several nearby exoplanets that they say could “potentially harbor life,” orbiting the brightest red dwarf star in the sky. According to a study published Thursday in the journal Science, a team of …