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White Dwarf Found That Once Was Two White Dwarfs 05 Mar 2020

White Dwarf Found That Once Was Two White Dwarfs

Astronomers have found a white dwarf that was once two white dwarfs. The pair of stars merged into one about 1.3 billion years ago. The resulting star, named WDJ0551+4135, is about 150 light years away.

Iran, WHO to fight against coronavirus 04 Mar 2020

Iran, WHO to fight against coronavirus

Iran's permanent representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), Esmaeil Baghaei Hamaneh met and held talks with Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in Geneva.

NASA Images Show Fall in China Pollution over Virus Shutdown 02 Mar 2020

NASA Images Show Fall in China Pollution over Virus Shutdown

NASA satellite images show a dramatic fall in pollution over China that is "partly related" to the economic slowdown due to the coronavirus outbreak, the space agency said.

Atlanta Lab for Coronavirus Test Kits Feared to Be Contaminated 02 Mar 2020

Atlanta Lab for Coronavirus Test Kits Feared to Be Contaminated

A top US federal scientist sounded the alarm about what he feared was contamination in an Atlanta lab where the government made test kits for the coronavirus, according to sources familiar with the situation in Atlanta.

How long can coronavirus survive on surfaces? 01 Mar 2020

How long can coronavirus survive on surfaces?

US health officials say they are ‘aggressively’ assessing how long coronavirus can survive on surfaces to better understand the risk of transmission.

Potentially Habitable Large Exoplanet Found 27 Feb 2020

Potentially Habitable Large Exoplanet Found

Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth to be potentially habitable, opening the search for life to planets significantly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune.

FAO warns desert locust infest southeastern Iran 24 Feb 2020

FAO warns desert locust infest southeastern Iran

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan will be infested by desert locust.

Doomsday Program Created to Decide What to Do If Asteroid Hits Earth 22 Feb 2020

Doomsday Program Created to Decide What to Do If Asteroid Hits Earth

A team of scientists at MIT have developed a computer program that will help humans decide how to best deal with the end of the world, so long as that comes in form of a catastrophic asteroid collision.

Australia Claims It Developed Vaccine for COVID-19 22 Feb 2020

Australia Claims It Developed Vaccine for COVID-19

Australia scientists claimed that they have made a key breakthrough in a desperate bid to develop a vaccine for the killer coronavirus, known as COVID-19.

How disease spread; science talks 22 Feb 2020

How disease spread; science talks

Scientists, medical professionals, and governments around the world are working to understand how the new respiratory disease ravaging Hubei Province spread.