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Off With the Talking Heads: A Plea for One COVID Voice thumbnail

Off With the Talking Heads: A Plea for One COVID Voice

"We don't have one consolidated voice." Those were the words of Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, on NBC's Meet the Press approximately 6 months into the COVID-19 pandemic. As everyone focused on the science of the treatments and vaccines, he was a lone
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Why Are Comet Heads Green – But Not Their Tails? Accidental Discovery Leads to Solution of 90-Year-Old Puzzle thumbnail

Why Are Comet Heads Green – But Not Their Tails? Accidental Discovery Leads to Solution of 90-Year-Old Puzzle

An accidental discovery and a love of spectroscopic perturbations leads to the solution of a 90-year-old puzzle. In a global collaboration, a team of researchers recently proved a 90-year-old theory on why comets’ heads, but never the tails, are green. The scientific explanation, published recently in PNAS, has to do with the way the molecule…
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EFF holds gun to the heads of metro coalitions

Shaky: Julius Malema warns coalitions that the EFF ‘wants to lead’. (Photo by Gallo Images/Sharon Seretlo) Opposition-led coalition governments in the Gauteng metros and in KwaZulu-Natal face collapse, with the Economic Freedom Fighters threatening to pull the plug on their current partners for denying the party a key post in the City of Johannesburg metro.…
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