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Highly effective COVID-19 vaccines have been developed in record time thanks to the scientific community’s rapid response to the COVID-19 outbreak and years of dedicated research. Remarkably, one key innovation is powering many of the…

The University of Texas at Austin has named Steve Sarkisian, currently offensive coordinator for the Alabama Crimson Tide, head coach of the Longhorn football team. He replaces Tom Herman, who was released earlier today.Sarkisian has a…

Deforestation dropped by 18 percent in two years in African countries where organizations subscribed to receive warnings from a new service using satellites to detect decreases in forest cover in the tropics.The carbon emissions avoided…

A new climate model that makes projections specific to urban areas predicts that by the end of this century, average warming across global cities will increase by 1.9 degrees Celsius to 4.4 C, depending on the rate of emissions.A new…

Diabetes nursing professor Maggie Shepherd is one of just four UK nurses and midwives to be included among the Women in Global Health’s 100+ Outstanding Women Nurses and Midwives. To mark the 2020 Year of the Nurse and Midwife, Maggie has…

As program manager for the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Package Testing Program, Oscar Martinez enjoys finding and fixing technical issues. He knows there’s a lot at stake: In his daily work, he manages and leads…

IDAHO FALLS – The National Reactor Innovation Center’s (NRIC) webinar “What Inspires Us: Advanced Reactor Demonstrations” will focus on the U.S. Department of Energy awards to TerraPower and X-energy to build their advanced nuclear…

The second lockdown poses another challenge for companies. These will continue to grow if the federal and state governments decide tomorrow, as expected, to extend business closings and further restrictions on business life. The corona…

Masters seminar tells the history of social science in comic formThe teaching award of the University of Tübingen for 2020 goes to junior professor Ursula Offenberger (focus on teaching, method center of the Faculty of Economics and…

Winter in Prostokvashino“We have enough money, we just don’t have enough brains,” says Kot Matrosikin, a wise cat in this famous cartoon, as he sits on a wood burning stove and scolds the dog, Sharick, for wearing sneakers in the snow.…