Inauguration Day marks both a grim milestone in the coronavirus pandemic and a new chapter in the U.S. response to it.On January 19, the United States surpassed 400,000… Read More...
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Amid rising infections and hospitalizations associated with new, more contagious, variants of Covid-19 throughout Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced that all… Read More...
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One of the more common ways people hold themselves back involves the flawed belief that “we are who we are” and that “nothing we do can change our basic nature.”… Read More...
Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States of America later today.
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And...breathe.
While millions of people all over the… Read More...
Face masks help reduce the spread of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. But they also tend to muffle speech. When you’re chatting with a friend, that may not be a big deal.… Read More...
The mysterious culprit behind a deadly sea star disease is not an infection, as scientists once thought.Instead, multiple types of bacteria living within millimeters of sea… Read More...
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Amid warnings of a “catastrophic moral failure” over the unequal distribution of Covid-19 vaccines around the world, the World Health Organization said Wednesday that the… Read More...
A distant galaxy has been caught in the act of shutting down.The galaxy, called CQ 4479, is still forming plenty of new stars. But it also has an actively feeding supermassive… Read More...
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Leave it to the Germans for providing the perfect word to explain the joy of Carnival: maskenfreiheit.
Maskenfreiheit is the freedom… Read More...
The exoplanet Proxima b, as shown in this artist's illustration, is thought to be inhospitable to ... life due to the atmosphere-stripping behavior of its star. It should be an… Read More...