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bbc.com — Where will we be in six months, a year, 10 years from now? I lie awake at night wondering what the future holds for my loved ones. My vulnerable friends and relatives. I wonder what will happen to my job, even though I’m one of the lucky ones: I get good sick pay and can work remotely. I am writing …

sciencealert.com — If building a super-secure, super-smart 'quantum internet' is ever going to be possible, then quantum-entangled photons are likely to be essential in building it – and scientists just figured out a very useful new way of generating them. Full Article >>

nationalgeographic.com — A curious life-form that lives in the park’s thermal pools makes a protein that changed the course of biomedical history. Enzymes are a key component in polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, a method used widely in labs around the world to study small samples of genetic material by making millions of …

popsci.com — Last year, while combing through NASA’s archives, two planetary scientists noticed something earlier analyses had overlooked—a blip in Uranus’s magnetic field as the spacecraft cruised through a magnetic bubble of sorts. The new result, which appeared last summer in Geophysical Research Letters, com…

independent.co.uk — A painting by the famed Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh has been stolen from the Singer Laren museum in the Netherlands, said museum officials. Thieves broke into the museum around 3.15am on Monday morning and stole the artwork featuring the vicarage garden in Nuenen in the spring of 1884, titled Spri…

cnn.com — A ZOO in Belgium has shared some amazing photos of a blossoming friendship between a family of orangutans and their otter neighbors. Full Article >>

news.com.au — Warning: Graphic +18 As new cases of the coronavirus continue to decline in China, thousands of people have started to flood back into controversial wet markets across the country. The city of Wuhan, which has been considered ground zero for the virus outbreak, has started to reopen after being pl…

moz.com — In this article, you will find local SEO tips that could make a difference for your business in the coming weeks, innovative resources for support, advice from my own tight-knit community of some of the world’s best local SEOs, and some serious thinking about building a better local future. Full A…

sciencealert.com — Though an asteroid strike seems kind of ephemeral right now, it's a real threat, and one that has the potential to end humanity. Agencies like NASA and the ESA are still working on their plans to protect us from that threat. NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission is scheduled to lau…

arstechnica.com — Last summer, NASA put out a call for companies who would be willing to deliver cargo to a proposed station in orbit around the Moon, called the Lunar Gateway. On Friday, NASA announced that the first award under this "Gateway Logistics" contract would go to SpaceX. The company has proposed using it…