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Michael Osterholm on where we are now with the COVID-19 pandemic

Michael Osterholm on where we are now with the COVID-19 pandemic

We check in with Minnesota epidemiologist Michael Osterholm about next steps for living amid a pandemic in the U.S. and what it would take to slow the current surge of cases.
by Kerri Miller, Breann Schossow and Matt Mikus

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Splashdown! SpaceX and NASA astronauts make history

Splashdown! SpaceX and NASA astronauts make history

Before Sunday, the last time any NASA astronauts came home by splashing down was in 1975 — and back then, they were in an Apollo space vehicle. This time, the astronauts were in a white, bell-shaped capsule owned by SpaceX.
by Nell Greenfieldboyce

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Scientists in Washington state have trapped their first 'murder hornet'

Scientists in Washington state have trapped their first 'murder hornet'

In a move to eliminate so-called “murder hornets” in North America, the Washington State Department of Agriculture is utilizing a new trapping technique. In July, trappers found their first one.
by Christianna Silva

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Federal push for faster, cheaper coronavirus tests focuses on 7 new technologies

Federal push for faster, cheaper coronavirus tests focuses on 7 new technologies

The National Institutes of Health is giving $248.7 million dollars to seven companies developing new technologies for testing, including use of the revolutionary gene-editing technique CRISPR.
by Rob Stein

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NASA launches Mars rover to look for signs of ancient life

NASA launches Mars rover to look for signs of ancient life

The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built — a car-size vehicle bristling with cameras, microphones, drills and lasers — blasted off Thursday as part of an ambitious, long-range project to bring the first Martian rock samples back to Earth to be analyzed for evidence of ancient life.
by The Associated Press

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Rapid, cheap, less accurate coronavirus testing has a place, scientists say

Rapid, cheap, less accurate coronavirus testing has a place, scientists say

A single test that can give false reassurance sounds bad. But a $10 test for the coronavirus, if repeated daily, would discover real infections, say proponents of such tests as screening tools.
by Richard Harris

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