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The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season came to an end Monday after shattering records and causing devastation across North America. There were a record 30 named storms, 12 of which made landfall, surpassing the record of 28 named storms in 2005, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA. Thirteen of the storms became […]
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For Steve Bruce, anything would have been an improvement on his side’s last two performances. The embattled Newcastle manager arrived in south London with criticism still ringing his ears following two successive 2-0 defeats and left with the club’s first victory at this ground since 2013 thanks to two goals in the last three minutes […]
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According to new research from CCR scientists, embryonic stem cells have a unique way of protecting their telomeres, the structures at the ends of chromosomes that shorten with every cell division. A research team led by Eros Lazzerini Denchi, Ph.D., an NIH Stadtman investigator in CCR’s Laboratory of Genomic Integrity, has found that rather than […]
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Whether it’s buying new video games for the next generation of consoles or if it’s finding retro games on eBay or retro game stores, consumption is at an all-time high. The lockdowns as a result of the coronavirus pandemic are partly responsible. Nielsen data in April revealed that there was a 45% spike in video […]
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Somehow, perhaps by some cosmic intervention, I haven’t gotten tired of hearing Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy” on the radio. Apparently, I’m not the only one because tens of thousands of people have gone to the effort of making covers of the song and uploading them to YouTube. In celebration of its music video passing 1 […]
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One victim said he suffered a fractured skull after he was hit with a bat. Authorities in Massachusetts released surveillance videos Saturday of a suspect believed to be linked to a series of “unprovoked attacks” on 10 people in the city of Waltham. The video shows a person who the Waltham Police Department previously said […]
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For José Mourinho, the equation is simple. You manage at a big-spending club and there is pressure to win trophies. More than that, it is an obligation. The Tottenham manager has felt it himself previously, including at Chelsea, where he delivered three Premier League titles in his two spells in charge. As he said a […]
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers have uncovered an important finding about the relationship between the microbiota and the immune system, showing for the first time that the concentration of different types of immune cells in the blood changes in relation to the presence of different bacterial strains in the gut. In recent years, the […]
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Several Amazon employees were hospitalized Saturday afternoon after being exposed to a potentially hazardous material at a distribution center in Southern California, according to a report. “They were exposed to an unknown substance inside the building,” Jody Hagemann, a spokeswoman for Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire said, according to The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, east of Los […]
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Ahead of the 2020 election, Twitter began showing a warning if you tried to retweet a tweet that had been labeled for potentially including misleading information. Twitter is now planning to expand that warning functionality to when you try to like a labeled tweet, the company announced on Monday. The functionality is rolling out on […]
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