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An international team of scientists have discovered an exciting Earth-sized exoplanet that's capable of supporting liquid water.
Science & Energy

It's the most similar to Earth in size and estimated temperature out of the thousands of exoplanets discovered by Kepler.

By Victor Tangermann

NY governor Andrew Cuomo said that all New Yorkers will be required to wear a mouth and nose covering in public when social distancing can't be maintained.
Developments

Time to cover up, New Yorkers.

By Victor Tangermann

The team behind NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has transitioned to controlling the rover from their home offices amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Mars

"It's classic, textbook NASA."

By Victor Tangermann

Epidemiologists say that the expected American death toll from the coronavirus would have been cut by 90 percent if the government acted two weeks sooner.
Viruses

Epidemiologists argue that the delayed response drastically worsened the death toll.

By Dan Robitzski

A Silicon Valley-based animal sanctuary called Sweet Farm is renting out farm animals, including llamas and goats, to spice up boring Zoom meetings.
Future Society

It has a clever name: Goat 2 Meeting.

By Victor Tangermann

A top Pentagon general said during a Tuesday briefing that the "weight of evidence" points towards the coronavirus having "natural" origins.
Developments

"But we don’t know for certain."

By Victor Tangermann

Trump just declared that he would withhold all U.S. funding for the World Health Organization in the middle of a global pandemic.
Developments

Leaders around the world are condemning Trump's decision.

By Dan Robitzski

Zoos in Germany might have to resort to some grim measures to keep doors open during the pandemic — slaughtering and even feeding animals to each other.
Future Society

"We've listed the animals we'll have to slaughter first."

By Victor Tangermann

In an essay for Vox, a COVID-19 patient describes his stay at the Javits Center in New York, a convention hall that was turned into a field hospital.
Future Society

"My improvised, tent-like cubicle was comfortable, and my doctors and nurses were caring and watchful."

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is reaching out to the landlords of its dealerships and service centers to try and negotiate down its rent payments.
Tesla

In a leaked email, Elon Musk's carmaker is asking landlords to lower its rent.

By Dan Robitzski

In a new study, a group of Harvard researchers argue that "prolonged or intermittent social distancing may be necessary into 2022."
Viruses

Bad news, people.

By Victor Tangermann

The Pentagon put out a call for vendors to develop a quantum system that could track spacecraft traveling too far away to use GPS.
Quantum Physics

Travel far enough from Earth and GPS becomes useless.

By Dan Robitzski

Bishop Gerald Glenn, an evangelical pastor in a community near Richmond, Virginia has passed away on Saturday evening from illness related to COVID-19.
Future Society

"I firmly believe that God is larger than this dreaded virus," he said before the virus killed him.

By Victor Tangermann

The Chinese government recently imposed new restrictions on coronavirua research, and now must approve all studies on the outbreak's origin.
Viruses

"The danger is that when scientific research is subject to the needs of those in power."

By Dan Robitzski

Ford filed an unusual patent last week that would actually keep rideshare passengers from getting paired with a smelly car.
Advanced Transport

It sounds goofy but could be great for people with allergies.

By Dan Robitzski

Health practitioners are finding that flipping COVID-19 patients onto their stomachs, or "prone positioning," is an effective way to keep them alive.
Viruses

"We're saving lives with this, one hundred percent."

By Victor Tangermann

A group of COVID-19 truthers have taken to the streets of Vancouver calling the coronavirus outbreak "fake news" and ignoring social distancing rules.
Future Society

We saw similar conspiracy theories about HIV.

By Victor Tangermann

The FDA just granted an emergency use authorization to a new test that scans saliva samples for the coronavirus, potentially making testing far safer.
Viruses

No more sticking swabs all the way to the back of your nose.

By Dan Robitzski

Rats across the country are turning to cannibalism and eating their young as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.
Future Society

"A new 'army' of rats come in, and whichever army has the strongest rats is going to conquer that area."

By Victor Tangermann

A research team failed to find a widely-accepted dark matter particle candidate in the Milky Way galaxy, causing a stir among disagreeing astrophysicists.
Physics

Either scientists were wrong about dark matter, our galaxy doesn't have any, or the paper is wrong.

By Dan Robitzski