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60,000-Year-Old Preserved Wood Has Ancient Bacteria That Could Create New Medicines NOAA

60,000-Year-Old Preserved Wood Has Ancient Bacteria That Could Create New Medicines

Scientists believe that new lifesaving medicines could be culled from a 60,000-year-old bald cypress forest. This isn’t, however, any regular forest. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which recently published an article about this particular forest, it flourished on the banks of a prehistoric river near the…
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April 9, 2020
‘Tinseltown’ 1920s Murder Mystery TV Series in the Works from ‘Desperate Housewives’ Writer Kevin Murphy Spanish Flu

‘Tinseltown’ 1920s Murder Mystery TV Series in the Works from ‘Desperate Housewives’ Writer Kevin Murphy

It seems like there’s no better time to escape to the past than now, and television is delivering by taking us back to the time of murder mysteries and Hollywood glamour with Tinseltown. A TV series based on William J Mann’s 2014 bestselling book, the Tinseltown TV series is a murder mystery…
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April 9, 2020
Hygroscopic Properties of NaCl Nanoparticles on the Surface: A Scanning Force Microscopy Study Earth‘s Climate

Hygroscopic Properties of NaCl Nanoparticles on the Surface: A Scanning Force Microscopy Study

Hygroscopic Properties of NaCl Nanoparticles on the Surface: A Scanning Force Microscopy Study Abstract We investigated the hygroscopic growth of Sodium Chloride (NaCl) nanoparticles with curvature related diameters ranging from 10 nm to 200 nm, at different relative humidity by scanning force microscopy. Hygroscopic aerosol nanoparticles play a vital role…
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April 9, 2020
More Than Half of Passengers on Antarctica Cruise Test Positive For Coronavirus Antarctica

More Than Half of Passengers on Antarctica Cruise Test Positive For Coronavirus

Six passengers have been brought ashore in Uruguay for further medical treatment and are currently in stable condition Almost 60 percent of people on board a cruise ship bound for Antarctica have been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the cruise line Aurora Expeditions confirmed. The Greg Mortimer, a relatively…
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April 9, 2020
CDC Strips Page on Hydroxychloroquine of ‘Unusual’ Guidance for Doctors Donald Trump

CDC Strips Page on Hydroxychloroquine of ‘Unusual’ Guidance for Doctors

Photo: David J. Phillip (AP)The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has changed text on their website to remove guidance for physicians on the possible usage of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, two drugs touted as a wonder cure for covid-19 by Donald Trump, on patients.Per Reuters, the page titled Information…
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April 9, 2020
Rolls-Royce leads data analytics alliance with its sights set on COVID-19 economic recovery Big Data

Rolls-Royce leads data analytics alliance with its sights set on COVID-19 economic recovery

Aims to limit recessionary impacts, help global pandemic response First data was the new oil, then Google said data is more like sunlight. A flood of organisations proposing big data insight into the COVID-19 response would have anyone believe it is the new medicine. One of the more noteworthy initiatives…
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April 9, 2020
Young People Weigh Pain of Job Loss Against Risks of Virus Little Italy

Young People Weigh Pain of Job Loss Against Risks of Virus

African American cashier scanning goods at checkoutBy Anna Almendral, Kaiser Health NewsEmilio Romero, 23, has mixed feelings about losing his job. It’s a major financial setback, but with two previous hospitalizations for pneumonia, a restaurant was not the safest place for the recent college graduate as the COVID-19 pandemic mushroomed.“Working…
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April 9, 2020