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A plate of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes, which were released in an Indonesian city.Credit: World Mosquito Program Epidemiologists typically speak in qualified and maintained language. But newly released results from a trial of a biological technology aimed at stopping the spread of mosquito-borne diseases, they have come up with terms such as …

Kevin Mayer is less than four months after taking the job as director of TikTok. While his resignation comes in the midst of the ongoing political unrest caused by the Trump administration, his decision to leave is likely to have less to do with politics and has more to do …

By Stephanie Nebehay and John Miller GENEVA / ZURICH (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday reiterated its advice that sources allow people exposed to the new coronavirus to be tested, even if they do not show immediate symptoms of infection. The remarks come after the U.S. Centers …

Exhaustive emission modeling by global physicists limits particle candidates. The detection of more than ten years ago by the Fermi Gamma Ray space telescope of a surplus of high energy radiation in the center of the Milky Way convinced some physicists that they saw evidence of the destruction of dark …

Okta, which provides employee registration software to nearly 9,000 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom and Slack, said as many as 85% of its workforce is expected to work remotely under the new policy, up from 30% before the coronavirus crisis. The company has roughly 2,600 employees. The decision highlights how American …