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Health workers perform coronavirus tests at a homeless shelter in Montevideo, Uruguay on February 4. Matilda Campodonico / A.P. Uruguayan President Luiz Inacio Lula da Pau has announced a new ban that will last until April 12 to stop the spread of Covid-19. Apart from essential services, public offices will …

Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP) – Part of the Wright brothers’ first plane is on Mars. NASA’s Experimental Martian helicopter, released by the space agency on Tuesday, has a small switch of fabric from the 1903 right flyer. A helicopter called Ingenuity rode the Red Planet with a Perseverance rover that …

At a hearing by the Senate Banking Committee, Vernen noted that the Federal Reserve began designating very large banks as “very large-failing,” giving them strong oversight of the Congress-Franc Act given by Congress. The bill, which was drafted in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, created the Financial Stability …

Description of nanoparticle vaccine containing proteins of many different flu strains. Credit: UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design Scientists at UW Medicine and NIH have developed experimental flu shots that stimulate widespread immunity in animal tests. Researchers have developed experimental flu shots that protect animals from a variety of seasonal …

Her husband, Mike Tyndale, who leads the English rugby team, announced the birth during an episode of a podcast titled “The Good, the Bad and the Rugby” published on Wednesday. The baby was born on the bathroom floor of her home in Gloucestershire, south-west England, at around 6.20pm, “after she …