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Mar 20, 2020

There’s an unlikely beneficiary of coronavirus: The planet

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Factories were shuttered and streets were cleared across China’s Hubei province as authorities ordered residents to stay home to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

It seems the lockdown had an unintended benefit — blue skies.

The average number of “good quality air days” increased 21.5% in February, compared to the same period last year, according to China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment.

Mar 20, 2020

Coronavirus could cause fall in global CO2 emissions

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, government, policy, sustainability

Responses to outbreak also show how government policy and behavioural changes can have impact.

Mar 20, 2020

World’s Fastest Supercomputer Finds 77 Potential COVID-19 Treatments

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, supercomputing

IBM’s Summit is currently the fastest supercomputer in the world.

Mar 20, 2020

Japanese flu drug ‘clearly effective’ in treating coronavirus, says China

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Shares in Fujifilm Toyama Chemical, which developed favipiravir, surged after praise by Chinese official following clinical trials.

Mar 20, 2020

Dutch Company Reveals An Electric Car That Charges Itself With Sunlight

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

A Dutch company from Eindhoven has released a prototype car called Lightyear One, that won the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, being the very first long-range solar car in the world. It has already sold 100 orders to be filled in 2011 and is a four-passenger vehicle.

Mar 20, 2020

International Missing Children’s Day: Eight million kids disappear around the world every year

Posted by in category: cosmology

This I believe is not a human problem but possibly alien phenomenon as some disappear with no trace even on earth but maybe somewhere else in the universe or multiverse.


It’s though that around 800,000 children will go missing in the US alone.

Mar 20, 2020

The New US Dollar

Posted by in category: media & arts

ON DECK: Polymer Gold Backed USTN~Series 2021 ❤️


The new US dollar banknote design.
details: https://www.behance.net/gallery/63326431/THE-NEW-US-DOLLAR

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Mar 20, 2020

Check Out The Senators Who Voted Against the Coronavirus Relief Package on Wednesday

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Marsha Blackburn (R-TN); Jim Inhofe (R-OK); James Lankford (R-OK); Mike Lee (R-UT); Rand Paul (R-KY); Ben Sasse (R-NE); Tim Scott (R-SC), and Ron Johnson (R-WI).

Also presented without comment: Sasse and Inhofe will run for re-election this fall.

Mar 20, 2020

Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections: systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Vitamin D may be effective in helping to prevent Covid-19:


PubMed comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from Central and publisher web sites.

Mar 20, 2020

Teva donates potential coronavirus treatment to hospitals across the US

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

This Is-Real!!! Israeli pharmaceutical company, Teva, has announced that they will donate more than 6 million tablets through wholesalers to hospitals across the United States, from March 31.


As the coronavirus is spreading across the world, and the number of people infected is increasing everyday, there is an urgent need to find treatments against COVID-19 that could reduce complications and improve recovery. Recently, the Israeli Health Ministry has approved multiple experiment treatments, and companies worldwide are attempting to determine what could be used to treat COVID-19.

As such, Israeli pharmaceutical company, Teva, has announced that they will donate more than 6 million doses of hydroxychloroquine sulfate tablets through wholesalers to hospitals across the United States, from March 31. Over 10 million tablets are expected to be shipped within a month.

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