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#BREAKING: A case of the new coronavirus strain that spread quickly in the United Kingdom has been confirmed in Florida. 8.wfla.com/385dkxa

TAMPA (WFLA) – A case of the new coronavirus strain that spread quickly in the United Kingdom has been confirmed in Florida.

The Florida Department of Health announced on Twitter Thursday that the individual is a man in his 20s who is currently in isolation in Martin County. The department noted the man has no travel history.

The state said it is working with the CDC on the investigation into the case.

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In 2020, we persevered. Now with the blistering energy of the most powerful rocket ever built we step fearlessly into 2021. We will:

🌖🚀 Send the first NASA’s Artemis Program mission to the Moon.
🛰️🌌 Launch NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope into space.
🔴🤖 Achieve a #CountdownToMars landing.

Let’s go: youtu.be/_fRSaLAEW2s

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Ford partnered with Agility Robotics to create a two-legged delivery robot called Digit. It’s easy to see why. One-click shopping and perks like two-day delivery are extremely convenient, but they are taking a toll on our cities and neighborhoods. The U.S. Postal Service alone delivered more than 6 billion packages in 2018, or double the volume it was handling about 10 years ago. To help address this issue, Ford is teaming up with Agility Robotics to explore a brand-new frontier in the world of autonomy — and a new way of thinking about how we make deliveries. Together, we will work toward making sure self-driving vehicles are uniquely outfitted to accomplish something that’s proven surprisingly difficult to do: Carry out that final step of getting your delivery from the car to your door.

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A desalination membrane acts as a filter for salty water: push the water through the membrane, get clean water suitable for agriculture, energy production and even drinking. The process seems simple enough, but it contains complex intricacies that have baffled scientists for decades—until now.

Researchers from Penn State, The University of Texas at Austin, Iowa State University, Dow Chemical Company and DuPont Water Solutions published a key finding in understanding how membranes actually filter minerals from water, online today (Dec. 31) in Science. The article will be featured on the print edition’s cover, to be issued tomorrow (Jan. 1).

“Despite their use for many years, there is much we don’t know about how water filtration membranes work,” said Enrique Gomez, professor of chemical engineering and materials science and engineering at Penn State, who led the research. “We found that how you control the density distribution of the membrane itself at the nanoscale is really important for water-production performance.”

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🎆 To celebrate another successful trip around our central star 🌞, we would like to invite you to a 🚀SpAsiaXtraordinary Party🎉

If you are interested in 🛰️space (or, even if not and just want to hang out with strangers online), then join this party tomorrow (January 2, at any time from 4:00pm to 12:00am GMT+8) at bit.ly/SpAsiaXtraordinary21

You can just show up or feel free to do more:

Lear… See More.

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We’re getting a lot of these aren’t we? 😃

Before that, this year’s final asteroid, 2020 YB4, measuring just 36 meters in diameter or roughly half the wingspan of a 747, passed by the Earth shortly after 6am UTC at a distance of 6.1 million kilometers. That means, in terms of the threat posed by space rocks at least, the planet made it out of 2020 somewhat intact.

However, in the first days of January, three additional, small Near Earth Objects (NEOs) will grace the Earth with their presence, for a brief time.

Continue reading “Rocky start: 2021 will begin with unwelcome, 220-meter wide asteroid visitor, NASA warns” | >

Scientists are edging closer to making a super-secure, super-fast quantum internet possible: they’ve now been able to ‘teleport’ high-fidelity quantum information over a total distance of 44 kilometres (27 miles).

Both data fidelity and transfer distance are crucial when it comes to building a real, working quantum internet, and making progress in either of these areas is cause for celebration for those building our next-generation communications network.

In this case the team achieved a greater than 90 percent fidelity (data accuracy) level with its quantum information, as well as sending it across extensive fibre optic networks similar to those that form the backbone of our existing internet.

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