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Pablo Escobar’s Hippos Fill a Hole Left Since Ice Age Extinctions
Asher Elbein//35 views
Trilobites Invasive herbivore mammals seem to restore functions missing in some food webs and ecosystems since the Pleistocene era. When Pablo Escobar died in 1...
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A.I. Versus the Coronavirus
William J. Broad//38 views
A new consortium of top scientists will be able to use some of the world’s most advanced supercomputers to look for solutions. Advanced computers have defeated ...
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Engineers Made a DIY Face Shield. Now, It's Helping Doctors
Tom Simonite//38 views/1 comments
To revisit this article, select My Account, then View saved stories. Early last week, Lennon Rodgers, director of the Engineering Design Innovation Lab at Uni...
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The Ibuprofen Debate Reveals the Danger of Covid-19 Rumors
Maryn McKenna//30 views
To revisit this article, select My Account, then View saved stories. Two weeks ago, national and world health authorities—and armchair experts and worried wel...
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The COVID-19 pandemic is generating tons of medical waste
Justine Calma//44 views/1 comments
Garbage contaminated with bodily fluids or other infectious materials is becoming a bigger concern for hospitals as they brace for a surge in patients sick with...
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Dyson developed and is producing ventilators to help treat COVID-19 patients
Chaim Gartenberg//45 views/2 comments
Dyson — the British technology company best known for its high-powered vacuum cleaners, hair dryers, and fans — has designed a new ventilator, the “CoVent,” in ...
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Verily details drive-through COVID-19 testing in new video
Chaim Gartenberg//37 views/1 comments
Nearly a week and a half after Google’s sister company Verily launched its COVID-19 screening and testing website, the company has published a video of its in-p...
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ULA targeting first launch for the US Space Force this afternoon during pandemic
Loren Grush//43 views
The United Launch Alliance is on track to launch a communications satellite for the US Space Force out of Cape Canaveral, Florida this afternoon — the company’s...
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Jane Goodall Is Self-Isolating, Too
James Gorman//37 views/1 comments
She’s in England, in the house she grew up in, and she has a few thoughts about chimpanzees, the coronavirus pandemic and the loo paper shortage. British primat...
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Nomad is expanding its manufacturing to make masks for medical workers
Jay Peters//38 views
Nomad, typically known for making smartphone accessories, has reprioritized operations and is expanding its manufacturing to make medical supplies like face mas...
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Go read this essay by a woman whose husband has COVID-19
Monica Chin//38 views/1 comments
Even as COVID-19 numbers explode around the country, many Americans are still experiencing the pandemic from afar. But when a family member is infected with the...
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Doulas in New York City are preparing to go digital
Nicole Wetsman//30 views
Two New York City hospital systems are barring anyone except the person in labor from the delivery room, including spouses, partners, and family members. People...
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SpaceX is making hand sanitizer and building face shields to fight coronavirus
Loren Grush//34 views/3 comments
SpaceX is manufacturing its own hand sanitizer and face shields with plans to donate the materials to hospitals and places in need to help fight the novel coron...
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The Covid-19 Pandemic Is a Crisis That Robots Were Built For
Matt Simon//38 views/1 comments
To revisit this article, select My Account, then View saved stories. We humans weren’t ready for the novel coronavirus—and neither were the machines. The pand...
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Doctors Are Pooling Data to Help Understand Covid-19
Michele Cohen Marill//26 views/1 comments
To revisit this article, select My Account, then View saved stories. An anti-malaria medicine called hydroxychloroquine might be a rescue drug for Covid-19—o...