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Chinese bus offers new evidence of airborne coronavirus spread: study

WASHINGTON D.C., United States (AFP) — A person on a poorly ventilated Chinese bus infected nearly two dozen other passengers…

Study shows how masks with valves and face shields allow spread of virus

WASHINGTON D.C., United States (AFP) — People wearing plastic face shields or masks fitted with a valve can spray invisible…

Climate change fuels sharp increase in glacier lakes

by Marlowe HOOD Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — The volume of lakes formed as glaciers worldwide melt due to…

WHO urges ‘dialogue’ with virus protesters

  by Nina LARSON Agence France Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- The World Health Organization urged governments Monday to engage…

Earth’s ice sheets tracking worst-case climate scenarios

by Marlowe HOOD PARIS, France (AFP) -- The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which hold enough frozen water to lift…

Junk food linked to age-marker in chromosomes: study

  by Marlowe HOOD Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) -- People who eat a lot of industrially processed junk…

Musk shows off progress merging brains and machines

  by Glenn CHAPMAN Agence France Presse Futurist entrepreneur Elon Musk late Friday demonstrated progress made by his Neuralink startup…

Landmark protest in Mauritius over giant oil spill

PORT LOUIS, Mauritius (AFP) — Tens of thousands of Mauritians protested Saturday in the capital Saint-Louis over the government's handling…

Robot eases loneliness of Mexican virus patients

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — A robot at a hospital in the Mexican capital is providing a lifeline for coronavirus…

US floats idea of early approval for eventual COVID-19 vaccine

  WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- The head of the US Food and Drug Administration raised the possibility in an…

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