Monthly Archive: October 2020
You can get coronavirus twice — scientists explain why. Second Time Around – Emma Betuel 2020 Oct 13 – Recently, scientists reported the case of a Nevada man grappling with a new, and frustrating development in the story of Covid-19. The 25-year-old appears …
Prehistoric tracks detail a moment when mammoths, sloths and humans crossed paths. The footprints found at White Sands National Park are more than 10,000 years old. (Courtesy of the National Park Service) – By Livia Gershon SmithsonianMag.Com 2020 Oct 14 – A small …
Gauging whether or not we dwell inside someone else’s computer may come down to advanced AI research—or measurements at the frontiers of cosmology. Credit: Floriana Getty Images – By Anil Ananthaswamy 2020 Oct 13 – It is not often that a comedian gives …
The Mobile Guardian Transporter about to be hit by a rocket-propelled truck. Sandia National Laboratories – By David Szondy 2020 Oct 11 – Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) has successfully conducted a full-scale crash test of the semi-tractor-trailer truck that will be used to transport …
Museum in Nantes pulls show after intervention by Beijing, which comes as Communist party hardens discrimination against ethnic Mongols. Genghis Khan statue in Mongolia. Photograph: G Adventures, Inc – Agence France-Presse 2020 Oct 13 – 22.06 EDT – A French museum has postponed …
A new study suggests an increasing prevalence of a third forearm artery in humans over the past couple of hundred years. piotr_marcinski/Depositphotos – By Rich Haridy 2020 Oct 11 – A human fetus transitions through a number of developmental stages in the womb. Some …
New, detailed imagery of the asteroid’s surface show that it’s covered in boulders and carbon-containing molecules. The asteroid, discovered in 1999, was named Bennu in 2013 by a third grade student who won a contest. (NASA/GSFC/University of Arizona) – By Theresa Machemer SmithsonianMag.Com …
Morganucodon (left) and Kuehneotherium (right) hunting in Early Jurassic Wales 200 million years ago – By Amy Woodyatt, CNN Updated 11:05 AM ET, Mon 2020 Oct 12 – Earth’s earliest mammals spent their lives at a more leisurely pace than their modern counterparts, …
Delegates from 34 Native tribes at the Creek Council House in Indian Territory, now called Oklahoma, 1880. National Archives – By Dwanna L. McKay, Assistant Professor of Race, Ethnicity, and Indigenous Studies, Colorado College 2020 Jul 16 – Some Oklahomans are expressing trepidation …
COVID-19 has spiked in ultra-Orthodox Jewish parts of New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images – By Joyce Dalsheim, Associate Professor of Global Studies, University of North Carolina – Charlotte 2020 Oct 07 – A spike in coronavirus cases in several Orthodox Jewish areas …
