SAN DIEGO – President Donald Trump on Thursday extended epidemiological restrictions on greencards and extended work visas to large groups of applicants until March 31, when the Federal Court of Appeals complied with its rule requiring new immigrants to have their own health insurance. The two developments that took place …
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Combining stunning images of NASA’s powerful Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Orion Nebula. This nebula, with its magnificent mixture of various gases and hot matter around young stars, was shot at different wavelengths. The image looks like a painting, but it really is one thing that …
Read More »Covid-19, a drug used to treat cancer for more than a decade, can cure
A drug that has been used to treat cancer for more than a decade could treat people with covid-19, according to new research. A drug called pralatrexate is a chemotherapy drug originally designed to treat lymphomas – tumors that grow out of the glands. Chinese researchers have found praltrexate outperforms …
Read More »It’s over for Farmville, as Flash also buys the farm
Farewell, Farmville. Shrimp 2020 is not the only thing to end on Thursday. The last day of the year is also the last day for one of the original Farmville Addictive Facebook Games. Farmville, which allowed players to cultivate a colorful cartoon farm by cutting crops and taking care of …
Read More »Meet pint-sized robots that dance spontaneously
By interacting in a limited space, a swarm of ‘smarts’ can create spontaneous choreography.Image: Courtesy Thomas Barutta In January 2020, the second-floor laboratory at Northwestern University was filled with light-running cloaking of three pushing robots. Around each other. The three were in a small ring colliding with each other, although …
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