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How the Washington hospital with the most COVID-19 cases is responding to the outbreak
Natt Garun//33 views/1 comments
EvergreenHealth hospital in Kirkland, Washington, is at the center of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States, due to the fact that the state is home to t...
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NBA suspends season as player tests positive for coronavirus
Sam Byford//34 views
The National Basketball Association has announced that it will suspend all games after tonight until further notice, following a player on the Utah Jazz testing...
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Amazon restricts sales of face masks and hand sanitizer due to coronavirus price gouging
Nick Statt//31 views
Amazon has begun restricting the types of sellers on its third-party Marketplace platform that can sell health and sanitation products like face masks, hand san...
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Why Didn’t Saturn Eat Titan, Its Biggest Moon?
Nadia Drake//25 views/2 comments
New simulations explain how the ringed planet ended up with one giant moon that domineers its tinier siblings. In classical mythology, the titan Cronus, who was...
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What if Galileo Had Dropped Bobsleds From the Tower of Pisa?
Randall Munroe//26 views/1 comments
Good question Don’t try this experiment in the Piazza del Duomo. Why, when I drop two bobsleds of unequal weights off the Leaning Tower of Pisa, do they hit the...
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How Long Could the World Run on Geothermal Power?
Rhett Allain//29 views/1 comments
Pop quiz: Of all the different ways of generating electricity or getting things (like cars) to do work, which of them don’t use energy from the sun? Fossil fuel...
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A Disease Tracker Backed by Gates and Zuckerberg Tackles Covid-19 in Cambodia
Megan Molteni//35 views/1 comments
Jessica Manning had no experience with coronaviruses. The infectious disease researcher had lived and worked in Cambodia off and on since 2013, studying the mos...
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NASA’s future monster rocket is once again over budget and behind schedule
Loren Grush//29 views
NASA is still having trouble managing the development of its next big rocket, the Space Launch System, a new audit has found. The report is the latest in a stri...
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Go read this report on how coronavirus started spreading in Seattle
Bijan Stephen//38 views/1 comments
It seems obvious now that the coronavirus is going to reshape the ways we interact with each other: conferences have been canceled, the stock market is tanking,...
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Coronavirus fears may affect how airlines curb their carbon emissions in 2021
Justine Calma//41 views
Efforts to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus are changing the way people work and play — and those changes are temporarily curbing greenhouse gas emissio...
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Mark Zuckerberg will fund quadruple increase in Bay Area coronavirus testing
Nick Statt//34 views/2 comments
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is funding a significant increase in coronavirus testing in the San Francisco Bay Area through two philanthropic groups he manages ...
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Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden campaigns cancel Ohio rallies amid coronavirus outbreak
Makena Kelly//34 views/1 comments
The Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden campaigns have canceled events in Cleveland, Ohio Tuesday after three cases of coronavirus were confirmed in the state. Both ca...
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Coachella has been postponed due to coronavirus
Jay Peters//31 views/1 comments
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has been postponed until October due to coronavirus, festival organizer Goldenvoice announced Tuesday evening. The ...
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Fearful reactions to the new coronavirus can put lives at risk
Nicole Wetsman//34 views/2 comments
People in the US are worried about the new coronavirus outbreak. That concern is warranted: the virus is a scary new threat, it can cause serious harm, and ther...
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US insurance companies will cover costs of COVID-19 testing and treatment
Nicole Wetsman//34 views/2 comments
US health insurance companies will waive copays for testing and cover the cost of treatment for the novel coronavirus, said Vice President Mike Pence during a p...