It’s a good month for stargazing. First with a full harvest moon, then with a rare blue moon on Halloween, and now, it’s the red planet’s turn to steal the show. Mars will be closer to Earth than usual tonight, and will look bigger and brighter than it has for …
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Anna Noise, a retired municipal worker in western Venezuela, says her diet often consists of just a few corn-flour pancakes, known as airspace. Even when she has the money to buy groceries at Maracaibo’s teaming flea market, she said that “instead of quality food they sell waste like animal hide …
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NASA’s Cygnus launch on the International Space Station this week could appear in most parts of the east coast, depending on weather conditions. The unmanned Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft will launch on Thursday from NASA’s Wall Laps flight facility in Virginia on one of the company’s entry rockets. The launch, …
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Timothy Ray Brown, the so-called “Berlin patient” and the first person to recover from HIV infection, has died at the age of 54. It was recently revealed that he was temporarily ill from a recurrence of leukemia last year. News of his death was announced on Facebook by his partner, …
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The death toll from the coronavirus epidemic reached one million on Saturday, as many countries continue to struggle to eradicate the virus that has overwhelmed health care systems, weighted economies and daily life around the world. Covid-19, a virus-causing disease, kills an average of more than 70,000 people every day …
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