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By Nick Lavars – A Malayan tiger (not the individual pictured here) has tested positive for COVID-19 at Bronx Zoo. wrangel/Depositphotos. – In the first case of its kind, a four-year-old tiger at New York City’s Bronx Zoo has tested positive for COVID-19, the …
Life in the time of corona More from this series – Covid-19 symptoms, when they occur, vary widely and undertesting means many people have probably been unwittingly infected. Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage – By Danielle Renwick 2020 Apr …
By Rich Haridy – Google says its release of location data is designed to assist local health authorities better understand how effective social distancing measures are in a given community. JohanH/Depositphotos. – In an unprecedented move, Google has publicly released a series of COVID-19 …
By Ben Coxworth – An early version of the U-CAT sea turtle robot. Tallinn University of Technology. – Marine aquaculture pens have to be regularly checked for holes, plus the fish need to be inspected for disease or parasites. And although the job is …
Ski towns and luxury retreats report rising number of cases amid concern hospitals could be overwhelmed by coronavirus patients. Medical personnel take medical samples at a ‘drive-thru’ coronavirus testing lab in West Palm Beach, Florida. Photograph: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images. By Amanda …
By Stephan Roget 2020 Mar 30 – Amid the COVID-19 outbreak of 2020, it shouldn’t come as news to anyone that markets will occasionally run short of something, and not just the staples like food, water, and toilet paper – sometimes it’s …
2020 Apr 03 – By Lisa Weintraub Schifferle, Attorney, FTC, Division of Consumer & Business Education – “Grandma: I’m in the hospital, sick, please wire money right away.” “Grandpa: I’m stuck overseas, please send money.” Grandparent scams can take a new twist – …
By Rich Haridy – Overall Winner, ‘Need to drink’, Jurug Park, Indonesia. @cymot/Agora. – Photography social network Agora’s latest contest focused on animals in wild natural environments. Indonesian photographer Wibowo Rahardjo took out the top prize with a rare look at an orangutan risking …
By Anthony Wood – Kuwait is known for setting – and breaking – high temperature records. weissdergeier/Depositphotos. – People living in the hottest places on Earth could be up to three times as likely to die from a heart-related cause, according to a …
By Michael Irving – An artist’s rendering of West Antarctica, which would have been a swampy forest around 90 million years ago. Alfred-Wegener-Institut, James McKay/CC-BY 4.0. – It’s hard to imagine Antarctica as anything other than a freezing lifeless landscape, but that wasn’t always …
