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Excessive Turnover at Nursing Properties Threatens Residents’ Care
Exceptionally high turnover among nursing home workers likely contributed to the shocking number of deaths in facilities during the pandemic, the authors of a new study suggested.The study, published Monday in Health Affairs, a health…
New World Map Tries to Repair Distorted Views of Earth
Most of the world maps you have seen in your life have passed their prime. The Mercator was designed by a Flemish cartographer in 1569. The Winkel Tripel, National Geographic's preferred map style, dates back to 1921. And the Dymaxion…
Watch Video From NASA’s Perseverance Rover Touchdown on Mars
What is it like to land on Mars?Now you can watch as if you were there in captivating, high definition clarity.On Monday, NASA released a short video captured by the agency's spacecraft Perseverance as it fell through the Martian atmosphere…
Johnson & Johnson’s Vaccine Works Effectively and Could Curb Virus Unfold
The newly released documents, which included the FDA's first technical analysis for the company's 45,000-person study, showed the vaccine was safe, with significantly milder side effects than Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, and with no reports…
F.D.A. Analyses Discover Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Works Nicely
Manufactured by Johnson & Johnson, the one-shot coronavirus vaccine provides strong protection against serious illness and death from Covid-19, and can reduce the spread of the virus through vaccinated people. This emerges from new…
For Shielding Endangered Neighbors, Pandas Make Flimsy Umbrellas
Most panda sanctuaries are made up of high-altitude bamboo forests, which is not ideal for all wildlife. The researchers found that two endangered species, Asiatic black bear and forest musk deer, have actively lost their habitat in the…
Manatees Might Carry Half a Million Microscopic Hitchhikers
Previous studies had linked nematodes to manatee skin. One of them described in 2011 an "exceptionally" long-tailed diplogastric nematode, Cutidiplogaster manati, which was found in skin lesions of West Indian manatees in an aquarium in…
Covid Vaccines: Johnson & Johnson’s shot approved by F.D.A.
WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration on Saturday approved Johnson & Johnson's one-of-a-kind emergency Covid-19 vaccine, starting millions of doses of a third effective vaccine that could hit Americans early next week.The…
Trying to find a Big Black Gap, Astronomers Discovered a Nest of Darkness
The cluster NGC 6397 is one of approximately 150 spherical clouds of ancient stars that orbit the Milky Way and possibly lie before it is formed. It's 13 billion years old and contains roughly 250,000 stars, all old, small, and dark. The…
NASA’s Mars Parachute Had a Hidden Code. Meet the Individuals Who Cracked It.
When NASA's Perseverance rover fell through the Martian atmosphere last week, a video camera from the spacecraft captured the breakneck deployment of its parachute, adorned with patches of reddish orange and white.These spots were…