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Married Couple And Son Sentenced For Killing Security Guard After COVID Mask Row

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A married couple and their son convicted of first-degree premeditated murder in the fatal shooting of…

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These 11 People Still Haven’t Had COVID. They Share Their Secrets.

Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of Americans have had COVID at least once, with the new immune-evasive…

2 years ago

FDA Lays Out New COVID Vaccine Plan Similar To Flu Shot Strategy

The Food and Drug Administration proposed a major change on Monday in the country’s approach to COVID-19 vaccines that, if…

2 years ago

House GOP Stacks COVID Response Panel With Top COVID Conspiracy Theorists

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) unveiled his picks on Tuesday for the new Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic: Republicans…

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If Future Humans Terraformed a New Earth, Could They Get It Right?

Fiction Future Imperfect What kind of world would humanity build with another chance to do it right? The Terraformers by…

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Flavor-Enhancing Spoons and Chopsticks Could Make Food Taste Better

Foods high in sugar and salt can be unhealthy, but these additives are too delicious for many of us to…

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How Star Collisions Forge the Universe’s Heaviest Elements

Bits of the stars are all around us, and in us, too. About half of the abundance of elements heavier…

2 years ago

Here’s What We Know about Stuttering

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. What comes to…

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‘Breakthrough’ Obesity Drugs Are Effective but Raise Questions

The hotel ballroom was packed to near capacity with scientists when Susan Yanovski arrived. Despite being 10 minutes early, she…

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Why COVID’s XBB.1.5 ‘Kraken’ Variant Is So Contagious

A new, rapidly spreading variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, means a rise in new infections could be…

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