At the beginning of lockdown, we were all playing a lovely game called Animal Crossing: New Horizons. We jetted off to an island of our very own, and it was populated by anthropomorphic residents obsessed with sports, or food, or becoming a pop star. We carved and whittled away at […]
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Defective Takata Airbag Inflator Causes 17th U.S. Death
Subject of the largest recall in U.S. automotive history, the airbag was in a 2002 Honda Civic and had been under an aggressive recall for years.
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Pandemic pushes start of holiday shopping earlier than ever
Add last-minute holiday shopping to the list of time-honored traditions being upended by the coronavirus pandemic. Retailers are kicking off the holiday season earlier than ever this year in hopes of avoiding big in-store crowds and shipping bottlenecks in November and December.
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Wishing Trump’s death from COVID-19 not allowed on Facebook, Twitter
Such posts will be removed, the social networks say.
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If COVID incapacitates Trump, the 25th Amendment kicks in
This constitutional amendment ensures a smooth transfer of power if the president gets very sick from the coronavirus.
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2021 Volkswagen ID 4 quick drive review: An easy-driving EV
A brief drive in an ID 4 prototype reveals an easy-to-like, well-rounded electric crossover.
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Those are Exoplanets. You’re Looking at Actual Exoplanets 63 Light-Years Away!
Located 63.4 light-years from Earth in the constellation Pictor is the young and bright blue star, Beta Pictoris. In 2008, observations conducted from the ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile confirmed the presence of an extrasolar planet. This planet was Beta Pictoris b, a Super-Jupiter with an orbital period of up […]
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Next-generation Subaru BRZ teased ahead of 2021 launch
The Mk2 Subaru BRZ (and its Toyota GT86 twin) will go on sale next year with a new platform and a rumoured 252bhp turbocharged engine
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Why Anthony Fauci is happy being the ‘skunk’ on the Coronavirus Task Force
Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.
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Medicine Nobel honors three scientists for discoveries on hepatitis C virus
The Nobel Committee has awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus, one of the most common causes of liver cancer. The prize was given to Harvey Alter of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), Michael Houghton of the University […]