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Nigerian-American-born Osaremen Okolo has been given an appointment by the United States' president-elect Joe Biden as one of the advisers on COVID-19 response.

London (AFP) – Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says players cannot “fake” their way into the Manchester United team, pointing to fierce competition for places and a stronger mentality as factors in their rise. The Old Trafford...

‘Clinical directors are scratching their heads and wondering whether or not anyone with an understanding of primary care has been involved in this decision’

India Ratings said the country's gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to contract 7.8 per cent in 2020-21

Now’s your last chance to squeak in some web game nostalgia. As Zynga warned in September, today is the last day to play the original FarmVille. The developers are shutting down the 11-year-old game after December 31st, 2020, in sync with Adobe endin...

Mark Travers, Psychology Today

Step aside ambivert, there's a new type of extravert in town.

Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica

Techniques to take atmospheric CO2 and turn it into a fuel provide a climate-friendly alternative to exploiting fossil fuels—they may releases CO2 back into the air when burned, but there's no net change. This includes biofuels crops, but can extend to industrial processes that directly involve CO2. As processes that capture CO2 from ambient air become more economical, so will the potential value of that CO2 as a resource for fuels.

Neel V. Patel, MIT Technology Review

A spacesuit is more like a miniature spacecraft you wear around your body than an item of clothing. It's pressurized, it's decked out with life support systems, and it's likely to look pretty cool. But should the suit fail, you're toast.

Paul Sutter, Space.com

You wouldn't know it by looking at it, but the moon is a time capsule.

Isis Davis-Marks, Sonian

Archaeologists excavating a site in Jaffa, Israel, recently made a macabre discovery: a 3,800-year-old jar containing the skeleton of a baby.

Forbes

"Climate change is one of the biggest existential threats facing society right now."

Brian T. Horowitz, IEEE Spectrum

Artificial intelligence in healthcare is often a story of percentages. One 2017 study predicted AI could broadly improve patient outcomes by 30 to 40 percent. Which makes a manifold improvement in results particularly noteworthy.

Tibi Puiu, ZME Science

The Simpsons is one of the most beloved shows in entertainment history. Its writers have masterfully blended a whole spectrum of humor with memorable characters while poking fun at society's biggest shortcomings.

Deborah Byrd, EarthSky

Sun pillars are vertical shafts of light that extend upward (or downward) from a bright light source, such as the sun or other bright light low on the horizon. They can be 5 to 10 degrees tall and sometimes even higher. They might lengthen or brighten as you gaze at them.

Brian Resnick, Vox

It's year-end-list season. Usually, the Vox science team has some fun and compiles a year-end list of bad ideas in health and science that ought to die with the end of the year. In the past, we've targeted

"Cobra Kai" was a huge hit when its first two seasons dropped onto Netflix last year, but Season 3 sees the show suffer from diminishing returns despite some nostalgic pleasures.

Each day, our editors collect the most interesting, striking or delightful facts to appear in articles throughout the paper. Here are 74 from the past year that were the most revealing.

She also wishes everyone a very happy and safe New Years...

A total of 2,622 new infections and 68 deaths were recorded on Thursday

Kim Jong Un’s regime has cut contact with much of the outside world this year, but reached out to a European Parliament committee in the days before the U.S. election.

TEHRAN, Dec. 31 (MNA) – Head of the National Committee for Prisoners Affairs Abdulqadir Al-Murtadha in the Salvation Government said that Saudi pilots will not be released from prison except in exchange for the Palestinian prisoners.

The United States saw a new daily high of 3,744 deaths from coronavirus in the past 24-hour period

China completed the track-laying work for a railway line linking the cities of Lhasa and Nyingchi in Tibet

Odisha government Thursday said that no mutated strain of coronavirus was found in any of the returnees from the United Kingdom or their immediate contacts, an official said. A total swab samples of six returnees were sent to Pune and Delhi for genome sequencing and no report confirmed the existence of the UK strain, Additional Chief Secretary, Health and Family Welfare P K Mohapatra. A total of 188 people have returned to Odisha from the UK, of whom 179 have been traced by the State Health & Family Welfare Department. Читать дальше...