Astronomers have seen the glow of a faint, rapid explosion 10 billion light-years away. The afterglow is so far away that it only happened 3.8 billion years after the Big Bang, and offers a glimpse of the universe when it was relatively close to its beginning. The afterglow came from …
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Housing prices in major cities across the country could fall as a result of the pandemic. Drew Angerer / Getty Images The coronavirus pandemic has many Americans heading to the hills, or the suburbs, so to speak. And city home prices could decline as a result, says Nobel Prize-winning economist …
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The 2020 coronavirus and the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemics share many similarities, but also diverge on one key point. “A big difference between the Spanish flu and COVID-19 is the age distribution of deaths,” according to Deutsche Bank DB, + 4.40%. “For COVID-19, the elderly have been overwhelmingly the most …
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Former FDA chief Scott Gottlieb, left, and former Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt, center, are advising Royal Caribbean and Norwegian on security protocols for navigating the pandemic era. Royal Caribbean CEO Richard Fain says the findings will be made public. Getty Images (1); Bloomberg (2) Text size …
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It seems like 2020 lasted a lifetime, but do you remember when the United States came together to fight the common enemy that was The Plastic bag? Cities around the world enacted bans and embarrassed anyone who dared to carry anything inside one. Those with pets were the most affected …
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