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2020 Audi e-tron Sportback gets US pricing and range

Audi’s 2020 e-tron Sportback will arrive at US dealerships this summer, the automaker has confirmed, pricing up the four-door fastback EV and confirming range estimates ahead of its launch. Announced back in November 2019, the e-tron Sportback will be Audi’s second all-electric production vehicle in the e-tron family, following the…

bubmagApril 30, 2020

Spanish Flu

Their Stories: Dr. James T. Goodrich mastered complex procedures to separate conjoined twins

Their Stories Published: April 30, 2020 at 3:45 p.m. ET The pediatric neurological surgeon died from COVID-19 at the New York hospital where he worked Dr. James T. Goodrich Blythedale Children’s Hospital James Goodrich had a stressful job. As a pediatric neurological surgeon, his days were filled with successes and…

bubmagApril 30, 2020

Vietnam

What happens when virus research funding gets political

Benjamin Corb is the public affairs director for the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, which represents nearly 12,000 biomedical researchers in the United States and across the globe. He is also the president-elect of the Coalition for Health Funding, and serves on the board of directors of ScienceCounts.…

bubmagApril 30, 2020

Antibiotics

Taste Something Metallic? It May Be A Symptom Of Coronavirus

Photo: Bruce Bennett/Getty Images.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently lists about 13 symptoms that they say are related to coronavirus on their website. Six of those COVID-19 symptoms were added recently. But one possible red flag we've been hearing a lot about lately is missing from the catalog:…

bubmagApril 30, 2020

Paul Newman

Hollywood’s Jake Picking: ‘Nothing Has Changed’ Since Rock Hudson

The golden age of Hollywood placed America at the center of the universe and birthed a new wave of movie stars. It was an era of great change and experimentation, yet studio executives ran their productions with an iron fist. One of the most famous stars to emerge was Rock…

bubmagApril 30, 2020

Huawei

More than one-fifth of smartphone sales evaporate in China as pandemic grips Middle Kingdom

Huawei has emerged from China's COVID-19 ravaged smartphone sector in Q1 as the only handset maker to report a local sales bump - not a big one, but it's likely not complaining. That's quite a feat considering the Chinese market actually declined 22 per cent year-on-year, during those three months,…

bubmagApril 30, 2020

Earth‘s Climate

Study reveals massive yearly ice loss in the Antarctic and Greenland

A new paper has revealed that Greenland and the Antarctic have lost a staggering amount of mass from their ice sheets over the last 16 years thanks to climate change, and that the melting has contributed to sea level rise. The researchers drew on satellite measurements that were taken by…

bubmagApril 30, 2020

Antarctica

The Great Antarctic Escape

Main Blog > The Great Antarctic Escape Spain operates two bases in Antarctica, on Livingston Island and Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands. They are only manned during the summer months and are not equipped to house research teams through the winter. So when the news of a global…

bubmagApril 30, 2020

Spanish Flu

Do Health Crises Create Room For Innovation?

Transcript Epidemics Spur Innovative How Thinking Despite the tragic effects of epidemics throughout history, difficult times often lead to ground-breaking innovations THE EFFECTS OF PAST EPIDEMICS The Black Death, mid-1300s Estimated to have killed 30-60% Changed the economic and social structure of Europe of Europe's population Led to the creation…

bubmagApril 30, 2020

Rijksmuseum

Famous Art Recreated at Home During the Pandemic

With art museums closed and people quarantined at home, some folks have taken to recreating famous artworks using stuff laying around the house. Some of the best recreations are from the Covid Classic Instagram account. Tussen Kunst & Quarantaine is pretty good too. Museums like Rijksmuseum and the Getty have…

bubmagApril 30, 2020

2020 Audi e-tron Sportback gets US pricing and range

Their Stories: Dr. James T. Goodrich mastered complex procedures to separate conjoined twins

What happens when virus research funding gets political

Taste Something Metallic? It May Be A Symptom Of Coronavirus

Hollywood’s Jake Picking: ‘Nothing Has Changed’ Since Rock Hudson

More than one-fifth of smartphone sales evaporate in China as pandemic grips Middle Kingdom

Study reveals massive yearly ice loss in the Antarctic and Greenland

The Great Antarctic Escape

Do Health Crises Create Room For Innovation?

Famous Art Recreated at Home During the Pandemic

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