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Preventing the Next Pandemic: Scientists Say We Must Regulate Air Like Food and Water
Humans in the 21st century spend most of their time indoors, but the air we breathe inside buildings is not regulated to the same degree as the food we eat…
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Preventing the Next Pandemic: Scientists Say We Must Regulate Air Like Food and Water
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Accidental Release From a Lab or Zoonotic Spillover? Scientists Call for Investigation Into the Origins of COVID-19
Letter From Scientists: Investigate the Origins of COVID-19 More investigation is needed to determine the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, say Jesse Bloom, Alina Chan, Ralph Baric, David Relman and…
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Evolutionary Biologists Just Discovered How Some Lizards Are Able to Breathe Underwater
Close-up of an Anolis lizard with a rebreathing bubble on its snout. Credit: Lindsey Swierk A team of evolutionary biologists from the University of Toronto has shown that Anolis lizards,…
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Holy See: media freedom promotes democracy and justice – Vatican News
Monsignor Janusz Urbańczyk, Holy See’s Permanent Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) addressed a meeting on media freedom on Thursday.
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How to Cloak an Object to Become Invisible to a Thermal Camera
Theoretical method can make objects invisible to a thermal camera, or mimic a different object. Can you feel the heat? To a thermal camera, which measures infrared radiation, the heat…
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Prehistoric Fossilized Footprints Show Earliest Known Evidence of Mammals at the Seashore
A reconstruction of the brown-bear-sized mammals (Coryphodon) that made thousands of tracks in a 58-million-year-old, brackish water lagoon in what is now southern Wyoming. Credit: Anton Wroblewski Today, the rocks…
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16 Jehovah’s Witnesses released from prison in Turkmenistan during Ramadan
(RNS) — Sixteen imprisoned Jehovah’s Witnesses were released in Turkmenistan along with about 1,000 others following a pardon by the president of the predominantly Muslim country. The unexpected move came…
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Supercomputer Simulations Reveal How Dominant COVID-19 Strain Binds to Host, Succumbs to Antibodies
Supercomputer simulations at Los Alamos National Laboratory demonstrated that the G form of SARS-CoV-2, the dominant strain of the virus causing COVID-19, mutated to a conformation that allows it to…
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African Forest Elephants Are Now Critically Endangered – Here’s How to Count Them
A team of scientists compared methodologies to count African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis), which were recently acknowledged by IUCN as a separate, Critically Endangered species from African savannah elephants. Credit:…
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No10 hits out at European Union amid reports France is holding up City deal over fishing
Downing Street on Thursday hit out at a mooted French plan to slam the brakes on a deal for the City to do business in the EU until a fishing…