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By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Dental patients and staff should be protected from any possible infection by aerosol-generating procedures, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, when dentists return to work in areas where COVID 19 pandemic loses. There is currently no data on the spread …

Tarantulas, like all things hairy, sometimes become bald. And for the Brazilian whiteknee tarantula (Acanthoscurria geniculata), baldness begins with the butt. On Thursday (August 6) entomologist Gwen Pearson tweeted a photo of what that looks like. Pearson and her colleagues at the Purdue Insect Zoo at Purdue University in Indiana …

Microsoft today began rolling out the August 2020 Patch Tuesday security updates. This month, the company patched 120 vulnerabilities across 13 different products, from Edge to Windows, and from SQL Server to the .NET Framework. Among the 120 vulnerabilities fixed this month, 17 bugs received the highest rating of “Critical”, …

Face masks used by many around the world to prevent the spread of coronavirus have joined the list of items arriving by email that are not requested in homes in the Tampa area. News station in Florida WFLA reported that Clearwater, Fla., Resident Shan Sharp received a package to her …

Photo: michaelheim (Shutterstock) There is a new research claim that neck grids like Buffs are worse than not wearing a mask at all. I’m not convinced that this study should be taken at face value, but it’s also reasonable to suspect Buffs, bandanas and other face masks that are not …