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Researchers Push for Mass Blood Tests as a Covid-19 Strategy
Gregory Barber//31 views
To revisit this article, select My Account, then View saved stories. Next week, blood banks across the Netherlands are set to begin a nationwide experiment. A...
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What Coronavirus Isolation Could Do to Your Mind (and Body)
Emma Grey Ellis//38 views/1 comments
To revisit this article, select My Account, then View saved stories. By now, you may have noticed a divide among your friends. As social distancing and self-i...
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Chimp Sanctuaries Restrict Visits Over Concerns About the Coronavirus
James Gorman//38 views
There’s a possibility chimpanzees could be susceptible to Covid-19, so sanctuaries are taking precautions. Chimpanzee sanctuaries are restricting human interact...
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Life on the Planet Mercury? ‘It’s Not Completely Nuts’
Shannon Hall//37 views
Trilobites A new explanation for the rocky world’s jumbled landscape opens a possibility that it could have had ingredients for habitability. Mercury — a planet...
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Turning Back the Clock on Aging Cells
Nicholas Wade//35 views/1 comments
Researchers report that they can rejuvenate human cells by reprogramming them to a youthful state. Researchers at Stanford University report that they can rejuv...
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A Medical Class ‘Minted by the Pandemic’
Emma Goldberg//38 views/2 comments
Across the nation, medical students are graduating directly into the path of an epic health crisis. Preparations for the Cadaver Ball, at the Vanderbilt Univers...
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You’ve Got Mail. Will You Get the Coronavirus?
Nicola Twilley//24 views
The practice of disinfecting mail dates back to the invention of quarantine. There’s little evidence it needs to be invoked today. Scientists agree that the mai...
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Welcome to the Virosphere
Carl Zimmer//33 views/1 comments
Matter SARS-CoV-2, the cause of the pandemic, belongs to one of 6,828 named species of virus. Hundreds of thousands more species are known, with perhaps trillio...
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The 2020 Tokyo Olympics have been postponed
Thomas Ricker//36 views/1 comments
The 2020 Summer Olympic Games, scheduled to open in Tokyo on July 24th, have been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The games will be rescheduled to 2021,...
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Quarantine is emotionally challenging, but there are ways officials can make it easier
Nicole Wetsman//28 views
When China placed a series of cities under lockdown in January to blunt the spread of COVID-19, experts warned that other countries may not be able to implement...
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Europe turns off instruments on some deep-space probes during coronavirus pandemic
Loren Grush//31 views/1 comments
The European Space Agency is putting four of its space missions into “safe configurations” amid the novel coronavirus pandemic as the agency plans to reduce the...
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The Promising Math Behind ‘Flattening the Curve’
Rhett Allain//32 views/1 comments
To revisit this article, select My Account, then View saved stories. Last week I wrote about the alarming math of a viral pandemic. We talked about how infec...
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Squids' Gene-Editing Superpowers May Unlock Human Cures
Eric Niiler//28 views
To revisit this article, select My Account, then View saved stories. Gene-editing techniques like Crispr-based technologies aim to cure human disease by alter...
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The true impact of SpaceX’s Starlink constellation on astronomy is coming into focus
Loren Grush//31 views
Ever since SpaceX launched its first batch of internet-beaming satellites last year, astronomers have watched with dread as the company continued to blast more ...
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Trump’s Itch to Reboot the Economy Would Be a Fatal Error
Megan Molteni//37 views
To revisit this article, select My Account, then View saved stories. On Monday, President Donald Trump promised that the White House would ease social distanc...