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Walmart, Target, and other retailers impose dedicated hours to help at-risk shoppers
Jon Porter//41 views
Supermarket chains across the UK, US and elsewhere have started offering dedicated shopping hours for elderly or vulnerable customers during the coronavirus pan...
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Air pollution could make the COVID-19 pandemic worse for some people
Justine Calma//30 views
Juliana Pino usually fights to push polluters out of the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago, an industrial area with a big Latino community. Now, amid the o...
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Razer is using some of its manufacturing lines to produce surgical masks amid shortage
Monica Chin//39 views
Razer has devoted some of its manufacturing lines to produce surgical masks, according to a Twitter thread from CEO Min-Liang Tan. The company will donate up to...
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How the coronavirus hitches a ride around your life
Cory Zapatka//38 views
Like millions of others right now, we on the Verge Science video team are hunkered down in our homes to help slow the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by ...
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Blood from recovered COVID-19 patients is a key resource for scientists
Nicole Wetsman//34 views/2 comments
When a new virus like the novel coronavirus appears and starts infecting people, one critical asset in the fight against it is blood from people who were sick a...
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NASA and SpaceX still targeting May for first crewed mission to space amid coronavirus pandemic
Loren Grush//38 views
After six years of developing a new passenger spacecraft for NASA, SpaceX is finally on track to launch its very first crew to the International Space Station i...
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NYC mayor asks Elon Musk to manufacture ventilators for COVID-19 patients
Sean O'Kane//40 views
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk tweeted on Wednesday night that he’s willing to have his companies, Tesla and SpaceX, make crucial ventilators to help patien...
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Want Electric Ships? Build a Better Battery
Daniel Oberhaus//43 views
Later this year, the world’s largest all-electric container ship is expected to take its maiden voyage, setting sail from a port in Norway and traveling down th...
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The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming
Steven Levy//29 views
Larry Brilliant says he doesn’t have a crystal ball. But 14 years ago, Brilliant, the epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox, spoke to a TED audience and...
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Chloroquine May Fight Covid-19—and Silicon Valley’s Into It
Adam Rogers//26 views
The chatter about a promising drug to fight Covid-19 started, as chatter often does (but science does not), on Twitter. A blockchain investor named James Todaro...
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What to Name the Oldest Modern Bird Fossil? Wonderchicken
Cara Giaimo//34 views
Trilobites Its skull was found in a chunk of rock that went overlooked for nearly two decades. Even paleontology has ugly duckling stories. In 2000, a fossil co...
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Alfred Worden, 88, Dies; Orbited Moon and Walked in Deep Space
Richard Goldstein//34 views
While two Apollo 15 crewmen roamed the lunar surface on a scientific mission, he took valuable photographs from the space capsule. Alfred M. Worden, who orbited...
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Abel Prize in Mathematics Shared by 2 Trailblazers of Probability and Dynamics
Kenneth Chang//33 views
Hillel Furstenberg, 84, and Gregory Margulis, 74, both retired professors, share the mathematics equivalent of a Nobel Prize. Two mathematicians who showed how ...
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Could Crispr Be Humanity's Next Virus Killer?
Steven Levy//35 views/1 comments
On February 19, Tim Abbott, a PhD candidate at Stanford University’s Bioengineering Department, checked the results of an experiment that he was running as a pa...
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Mass Panic Is Unlikely, Even During a Pandemic
Matt Simon//38 views
There’s an old trope that when faced with disaster, human beings lose all rationality, running around panicking, looting and trampling one another. But that, as...