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Street Artists Take On Coronavirus Pandemic With Powerful, Poignant And Witty Pieces Bolsonaro

Street Artists Take On Coronavirus Pandemic With Powerful, Poignant And Witty Pieces

Part of HuffPost Entertainment. ©2020 Verizon Media. All rights reserved. Huffington Post. Street Artists Take On Coronavirus Pandemic With Powerful, Poignant And Witty Pieces Street artists worldwide are responding to the coronavirus pandemic with originality, flair and wit. Over the last few weeks, a plethora of powerful, poignant and witty…
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April 8, 2020
An Ultrasensitive Fluorescence Assay for the Detection of Halides and Enzymatic Dehalogenation Alexander von Humboldt

An Ultrasensitive Fluorescence Assay for the Detection of Halides and Enzymatic Dehalogenation

Introduction Chemical industries annually produce millions of tons of short‐chain haloalkanes that are used as solvents and synthetic intermediates.1 Additionally, each year several million tons of methyl halides, predominantly chloromethane, are released into the atmosphere by terrestrial and marine biomass.2 Haloalkanes are toxic and are often employed as pesticides, herbicides,…
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April 8, 2020
Zoom media briefing: The Event Horizon Telescope, a year after capturing the image of a black hole Black Hole

Zoom media briefing: The Event Horizon Telescope, a year after capturing the image of a black hole

Media Advisory 20-002 April 8, 2020 Media are invited to join an April 10 Zoom media briefing with Sheperd S. Doeleman, founding director of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), and astrophysicist Michael Johnson to discuss the one-year anniversary of EHT releasing its revolutionary image of a black hole. Doeleman and…
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April 8, 2020
The city will survive coronavirus Hiroshima

The city will survive coronavirus

In a recent essay, New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman asked “Can City Life Survive Coronavirus?” It seems an apt question in this extraordinary time of mandated retreat from public life.  City streets and spaces normally teeming with people are nearly deserted now, evoking scenes from a Terry Gilliam film.  In…
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April 8, 2020
Study: No, electric car motors don’t adversely interfere with pacemakers Electric Car

Study: No, electric car motors don’t adversely interfere with pacemakers

Cardiac devices like pacemakers and defibrillators are prone to potentially dangerous malfunctions when exposed to strong magnetic fields. This has led some to raise concern about powerful electric vehicle motors and how they might affect people with pacemakers. According to a recent study, published in the Technology and Health Care…
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April 8, 2020
Airbnb’s bridge too short Bubble

Airbnb’s bridge too short

Hi everyone, welcome back to Trending, Business Insider Prime's weekly newsletter of the latest tech industry developments. I'm Alexei Oreskovic, Business Insider's West Coast bureau chief and global tech editor.  This week: Airbnb's bridge too shortIf Zoom is the global quarantine's tech darling (privacy snafus and trolls aside), then Airbnb…
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April 8, 2020
UK PM Johnson is stable in hospital, responding to treatment: spokesman Boris Johnson

UK PM Johnson is stable in hospital, responding to treatment: spokesman

FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a news conference on the novel coronavirus, in London, Britain March 3, 2020. Frank Augstein/Pool via REUTERS/File PhotoLONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson is responding to treatment in intensive care at a central London hospital, his spokesman said on Wednesday,…
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April 8, 2020
New geoelectric hazard map shows potential vulnerability to high-voltage power grid for two-thirds of the U.S. NOAA

New geoelectric hazard map shows potential vulnerability to high-voltage power grid for two-thirds of the U.S.

Map from the report showing 100-year storm-induced voltages on the national electric power grid. Credit: United States Geological Survey The U.S. Geological Survey released a new report on geoelectric hazards for two-thirds of the contiguous U.S., spanning from the northeast to the west coast of the Nation. The research, featured…
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April 8, 2020