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Moving Your Class Online? Tips for Keeping Students Engaged
Rhett Allain//38 views
With the spread of the new coronavirus, colleges and universities around the country are shutting down and asking instructors to move their classes online. For ...
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Why the Coronavirus Hit Italy So Hard
Matt Simon//40 views/1 comments
With the world descending deeper and deeper into coronavirus chaos, we all face unnerving unknowns: how long we’ll have to remain in isolation, when the pandem...
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Brawling Monkeys. Wandering Deer. Blame Coronavirus.
Annie Roth//43 views
Trilobites At popular tourist stops in Thailand and Japan, some creatures are going hungry because visitors haven’t been turning up to feed them. In a video pos...
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Dirty air cuts back California crops
Justine Calma//41 views
California loses up to $1 billion in crops each year because of air pollution, according to new research that looked at trends from 1980 to 2015. Table grapes —...
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San Francisco and Bay Area will shelter in place to slow coronavirus spread
Kim Lyons//30 views
Six counties in the San Francisco Bay Area — about 6.7 million people — are under a “shelter in place” order to try to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus...
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How NASA is preparing to launch humans to space as coronavirus pandemic worsens
Loren Grush//33 views/1 comments
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen in the US, NASA is still moving forward with many of its upcoming missions, including some launches that will se...
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Everything You Need to Know About Coronavirus Testing
Megan Molteni//28 views/1 comments
The state of Ohio has, as of this writing, five confirmed cases of Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. If you ask Amy Acton, the directo...
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FDA Approves the First Commercial Coronavirus Tests in the US
Gregory Barber//24 views
After a weeks-long shortage of COVID-19 tests and limits on screening that have hampered officials’ ability to respond to the crisis, the first commercial tests...
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Social Distancing: How Many People is Too Many?
Aarian Marshall//38 views
My cousin had to cancel his bar mitzvah, which was planned for Saturday in Washington, DC. Some 100 people were scheduled to be there, but like many houses of w...
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What If You Can't Avoid the Hospital as Covid-19 Spreads?
Emma Grey Ellis//29 views/1 comments
Maintaining social distance and voluntarily quarantining yourself is part self-interest, part altruism. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread, the liv...
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Physicists Chip Away at a Mystery: Why Does Glass Exist?
Natalie Wolchover//32 views/1 comments
In 2008, Miguel Ramos read in the newspaper that 110-million-year-old amber bearing pristine Mesozoic insects had been discovered a few hours’ drive from Madrid...
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They Knew Saber-toothed Tigers Were Big. Then They Found This Skull.
Joshua Sokol//32 views/1 comments
Trilobites The find suggests that the prehistoric predators might have been able to feed on even the most giant prey of the Pleistocene era. When the curator me...
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These Lab Animals Will Help Fight Coronavirus
James Gorman//43 views
Scientists are ramping up the breeding of lab mice as well as the testing of primates and other animals, but it all takes time. Among the many lessons of the co...
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How Long Does the Coronavirus Last on Surfaces?
Gregory Barber//39 views
By now, let’s hope you’re safely ensconced at home—going a little stir-crazy, perhaps, but doing your part to “flatten the curve.” But let’s say you’re one of t...
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Can You Calculate Pi by Drawing a Circle?
Rhett Allain//37 views/2 comments
If you think about it, pi is really weird. This irrational number shows up in the craziest places. If you swing a mass back and forth on a string, there's a pi ...