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Are you worried that you might get the new coronavirus from food or food packaging? No need for such fears, the World Health Organization (WHO) said this week. “People should not be afraid of food, or food packaging or food processing or delivery,” Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO …

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem asked her voters to tackle her “positive pants” and use optimism as a tool to fight the coronavirus. Noem said that during a recent visit to a Sioux Falls classroom, a message fell on a bulletin board in a fourth-grade classroom. “It said ‘Put on …

It seems that the producers of The Bachelorette just throw ideas on the wall and hope something sticks out at this point. Every day some new information about this season is released and it stays wilder. Recently it was just confirmed that host Chris Harrison would be leaving his duties …

By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. government scientists have begun efforts to create a strain of the new coronavirus that could be used in human challenge tests of vaccines, a controversial type of study in which healthy volunteers would vaccinate and then deliberately infect with the virus, Reuters has …

The trilobite Aulacopleura kionickii (Barrande, 1846), size: c 1cm. Credit: Brigitte Schoenemann. A beautifully preserved 429 million-year-old eye of a marine creature that became extinct before dinosaurs even existed had vision similar to that of modern bees and dragonflies, researchers said Thursday. Fossilized trilobites, formidable-looking arthropods with segmented bodies and …