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At least five people have been infected with coronavirus after attending a non-school-sanctioned “mini-prom” in southeastern Illinois, officials said Friday. Wabash County health officials want to find everyone who attended the Aug. 4 event in Mount Carmel, which is about 150 miles east of St. Louis. Louis and 130 miles …

Increase / A SpaceX Starlink user terminal / satellite dish. SpaceX Beta users of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband service will receive download speeds ranging from 11Mbps to 60Mbps, according to tests conducted using Ookla’s tooltestest.net. Speed ​​tests showed upload speeds ranging from 5Mbps to 18Mbps. The same tests, conducted in …

It may seem to public health officials that giving an inch means people will take a mile. In the months since most U.S. states emerged from coronavirus lockon, wearing a mask has become a matter of policy over security, “pandemic parties” have broken out in California, New York and Florida, …

Artistic perception of a dark brown dwarf, which could resemble hypothetical black dwarfs, which predict to exist in the distant future. Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech “This is the way the world ends,” TS Elliot said in his famous poem, “not with a slap, but with a trick.” These days, scientists …

Kenya’s elephant population has doubled in the last three decades, in part due to a collapse of poachers and ivory smugglers, authorities announced at an event marking World Elephant Day on Wednesday. Between 1989 and 2019, Kenya’s population of African elephants grew from about 16,000 to more than 34,000, according …