SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As California trudges into another autumn marred by toxic wildfire smoke and drought-parched reservoirs, state lawmakers have cast climate change as a growing public health threat for the state’s 40 million residents. But they were willing to…
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Making Moves! North West Scores Invite to Bob Ross Museum After Viral Painting
Take that, haters! North West’s highly debated landscape painting just scored her a personal invite to a museum honoring late painter Bob Ross. Inside North West’s Fabulous Life Sarah Strohl, an executive assistant at Bob Ross Inc., told TMZ on…
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Sweden moves high school classes online as virus cases surge
Sweden’s high schools will close for a month and students will instead take classes online, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven announced Thursday as coronavirus cases soar in the country. “This is to create a slowing effect on the spread of infection,”…
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Without gravity, the fluid around an astronaut’s brain moves in weird ways
Fluid around the brain redistributes in the skull during spaceflight, scientists found in a new study of 11 cosmonauts who visited the International Space Station (ISS). The study, which confirms previous findings about the effects of microgravity on the human…
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COVID-19 rapid test has successful lab results, research moves to next stages
Rapid detection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, in about 30 seconds following the test, has had successful preliminary results in Mano Misra’s lab at the University of Nevada, Reno. The test uses a nanotube-based electrochemical biosensor, a similar technology that Misra…
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Coronavirus: the first moves to ease lockdown
Slowly but surely, several countries are starting to plan for a gradual end to the lockdowns imposed to try and stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here is an overview: China The central Chinese province of Hubei, with the…
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