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MILAN (AP) – The virus has spread to nursery schools and adjacent primary schools in Bolt’s Milan suburb at a surprising pace. In just days, 45 children and 14 staff members tested positive. Genetic analysis has already confirmed the suspicions to officials: the first known highly contagious coronavirus variant in …

Last February, Google announced that Fit for Android can measure heart and respiratory rates using just your phone. These new Google Fit camera tracking capabilities will start rolling out in Pixel phones from Monday. Google says these criteria are “not for medical purposes”, while Fit’s camera-based approach provides a convenient …

Vaccines may be introduced worldwide, but there may still be a way to return to normal international travel. So Singapore has come up with an intermediate solution: COVID safe “bubble” hotel for business travelers. Connect @ Changi offers business travelers a place to stay where they can bypass the mandatory …

Scientists on Friday began casting the largest ever telescope mirrors ever made on Earth for the Chilean-built Giant Magellan Telescope. Why it’s important: The giant telescope, built to peer one day into the atmosphere of potentially habitable planets around distant stars, can learn more about early galaxies and study other …

Providence, RI – The numbers began in September. After a quiet summer, doctors at Rhode Island Hospital began seeing one or two Covid-19 patients on each shift – and soon three. Then four. Cases continued to rise until early December, when Rhode Island had a dubious reputation of having more …