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Almost 50 years after brutal rape and murder, DNA cracks cold case, suspect commits suicide before conviction
For 47 years, the case remained cold, with little evidence of who assaulted and murdered [20-year-old Jody] Loomis — until ...
Reliable, at-home, 11 minute COVID test green lighted by FDA, available within months
Many tests take days to produce results, require leaving quarantine to visit a medical professional, or — most likely — ...
Why is it taking so long to rollout home COVID tests?
Although no single test will end the pandemic in the United States, experts say the ability for people to take ...
Pfizer COVID trial patient calls vaccine ‘miracle from the biotech revolution’
It was early August, and I had enlisted in the clinical trial for the vaccine that has just reported very ...
Why COVID kills more men than women
For every 10 women claimed by [COVID] in the United States, 12 men have died, found an analysis by Global Health 50/50, ...
Can AI save us from COVID-19? ‘If the virus had hit 20 years ago, the world might have been doomed’
Millions of gigabytes of data — the equivalent of a modest library — are being generated by the pandemic each ...
Sewage tests can predict where the next COVID surge might arise
Across the United States, scientists have been analyzing sewage water to determine how intense [COVID] outbreaks might be, given limits on testing, ...
The lure of conspiracy theories and how to protect yourself
[I]n the same way that our immune system can leave us more vulnerable to pathogens, our emotional state can make ...
There is water on the moon!
[New] research confirms long-standing theories about the existence of lunar water that could someday enable astronauts to live there for extended periods ...
Washington Post 3-part documentary series explores decades of White House preparation preceding the Trump Administration’s failed pandemic response
In a three-part documentary, The Washington Post explores why the Trump administration failed to contain the coronavirus pandemic, despite decades of preparation ...
How American COVID misinformation energized the global anti-vaccine conspiracy movement
The coronavirus crisis is energizing America’s anti-vaccine movement and expanding its reach. Even as countries and companies race to develop a safe ...
Plant-based meats can be labeled ‘burgers’ in Europe, encouraging consumers to eat fewer animal products
Veggie burger enthusiasts can rejoice after the European Parliament on [October 23] rejected a measure to ban use of the ...
A COVID tale of two universities: This historically Black Alabama college got its opening right; their mostly White neighbor flubbed it
[The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa and Birmingham campuses] were supposed to have the same clean slate when classes resumed amid ...
It turns out seniors are both more vulnerable to COVID and can handle quarantines better
Stories abound of many older Americans handling the pandemic with the kind of resilience and aplomb my mother showed... My ...
World War I now linked to 5-year frigid period that likely intensified Spanish flu that infected one-third of the world
During the [1918] influenza pandemic, about one-third of the world was infected and at least 50 million died. But why was the ...
COVID spikes surge in search for birth parents and disconnected relatives
[Krystal] Myers, 34, grew up in Freeport, Long Island with her mother, and still lives near there. When she was ...
A cup of coffee a day keeps colorectal cancer away
Drinking one to four or more cups of coffee a day may help people with advanced colorectal cancer live longer ...
Video: Breaking the COVID genetic code: How genetic data revealed a secret coronavirus outbreak
The coronavirus mutates as it moves through its victims. Infectious particles swabbed from a patient’s nose carry small but distinctive differences ...
With concerns rising that Trump was conspiring to end run FDA vaccine standards, White House reverses decision to block release after the agency ignored the president and published them anyway
The White House on [October 6] approved tough new standards for coronavirus vaccines after weeks of delay, but only after the ...
Chilling news from Italy’s COVID epicenter: 5 months after infection, half of survivors still suffer symptoms
Six months ago, Bergamo was a startling warning sign of the virus’s fury, a city where sirens rang through the night and ...
Easy-to-administer single shot COVID vaccine from Johnson & Johnson in final phase testing
[An] experimental vaccine being developed by pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson is the fourth vaccine to enter the large, Phase 3 ...
Ostrich Paradox: How our inability to process risk is crippling responses to COVID
The question is… Why do some take the threat of the virus more seriously than others? Your risk of contracting ...
Geopolitical COVID challenge: China and Russia providing not-fully-vetted vaccines, targeting the Middle East
China's Sinopharm announced [September 14] that it would provide emergency doses of one of its two trial vaccines to the ...
CDC guidance in turmoil over conflicting evidence whether COVID can be transmitted through the air over longer distances
[On Monday, September 21,] the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention edited its Web page describing how the novel coronavirus spreads, ...
Poop detection is the latest ‘cutting-edge’ test to protect returning college students from COVID
The [University of Arizona] is regularly screening the sewage from each dorm, searching for traces of the virus. On [September ...
Meet the scientists who research mosquitoes by feeding them their own blood
The colony was picky — it wouldn’t feed on anesthetized mice or drink from a container covered with a membrane ...
Trump won’t join cooperative global effort to develop and distribute COVID vaccines because of his opposition to WHO
More than 170 countries are in talks to participate in the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (Covax) Facility, which aims to speed vaccine ...
Science checking Trump’s touted convalescent plasma COVID treatment
President Trump announced [August 23] that he had helped break through a regulatory “logjam” to grant emergency authorization of convalescent ...
