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Singapore Was Ready for Covid-19—Other Countries, Take Note
Adam Rogers//40 views/1 comments
This pandemic—the new disease Covid-19, the virus SARS-CoV-2—is not Singapore’s first epidemiological nightmare. In 2002 and 2003, Severe Acute Respiratory Synd...
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The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Bringing Down Emissions, but Not for Long
Matt Simon//36 views/1 comments
If you’re reading this at home—isolated because your company has mandated that everyone work remotely, lest you all spread the novel coronavirus—know that your ...
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From Pandemic to Social Distancing: A Coronavirus Glossary
Jenny Gross, Mariel Padilla//26 views/2 comments
Here are some of the terms and phrases you need to know to understand the virus and how it spreads. When is an epidemic considered a pandemic, and what is the d...
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Could an Invasive Snail Save Your Morning Coffee?
Maria Cramer//34 views
Coffee leaf rust has long been the enemy of coffee growers, but a snail from Southeast Asia may give them hope. It’s not exactly what you want to think about wh...
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Some Paleontologists Seek Halt to Myanmar Amber Fossil Research
Lucas Joel//33 views
The substance has driven remarkable discoveries about the prehistoric world, but concerns about its sourcing are growing. Fossils preserved in amber are giving ...
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Skull of Smallest Dinosaur Discovered in Amber
Lucas Joel//39 views/1 comments
Trilobites Researchers say it is tinier than the smallest living bird, the bee hummingbird, and raises questions about bird evolution. In 2016, Lida Xing of Chi...
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Flattening the Coronavirus Curve
Siobhan Roberts//38 views/1 comments
One chart explains why slowing the spread of the infection is nearly as important as stopping it. At the end of February, Drew Harris, a population health analy...
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Trump’s Coronavirus Policies Don't Tackle the Pandemic
Adam Rogers//35 views/1 comments
In a speech from the Oval Office at the White House Wednesday night, President Donald Trump laid out new, aggressive policies designed, he said, to combat the f...
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The Teeny-Tiny Flying Dino With a Mouth Full of Needle Teeth
Matt Simon//37 views/3 comments
Some 100 million years ago in a seaside mangrove swamp in what we humans now call Myanmar, a truly bizarre dinosaur flitted about, stalking its insect prey. Its...
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In Human Nature, Crispr's Origin Story Comes to Life
Megan Molteni//31 views
Midday light streams through the windows of the Stanford Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, California. In a bed too big for his child-sized body, David Sanchez ...
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WHO declares the outbreak of the new coronavirus is a pandemic
Nicole Wetsman//29 views
The coronavirus sweeping across the world is a pandemic, the World Health Organization declared today. There are now over 118,000 cases of COVID-19, the disease...
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Blue Origin reveals shiny new mission control room for future New Glenn rocket
Loren Grush//39 views
Aerospace company Blue Origin has finished building its mission control center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, where engineers will monitor launches of the company’...
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Greta Thunberg urges climate protests to move online because of coronavirus outbreaks
Justine Calma//32 views
Greta Thunberg is calling on other young climate activists to avoid big protests and move their demonstrations online amid efforts to contain the novel coronavi...
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Here’s who’s most at risk from the novel coronavirus
Nicole Wetsman//42 views/1 comments
Nearly everyone in the US will be affected in some way by the COVID-19 pandemic, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus — by stress and anxiety, event clos...
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Some states are offering drive-thru coronavirus testing
Andrew J. Hawkins//44 views/1 comments
In South Korea, health officials have been testing hundreds of people for the novel coronavirus every day at fast-food-style drive-thrus. Now, that method is co...