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September 26, 2020 at 6:54 am

Tiny airborne particles may pose a big coronavirus problem

NEW YORK (AP) — At a University of Maryland lab, people infected with the new coronavirus take turns sitting in a chair and putting their...

A security officer walks past the entrance of the closed Marriott Long Wharf hotel, Tuesday, April 21, 2020, in Boston. The new coronavirus was spread among Biogen executives who were meeting at the hotel in late February. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes) NYOTK

August 25, 2020 at 4:06 pm

Gene sleuths suggests wide virus spread from Boston meeting

A meeting at a hotel in Boston last February may have ignited the spread of the pandemic virus to some 19,000 people in the area,...

July 22, 2020 at 8:09 am

Stone tools suggest earlier human presence in North America

NEW YORK (AP) — Stone tools found in a Mexican cave suggest that people were living in North America as early as about 26,500 years...

July 14, 2020 at 10:01 pm

Profile of a killer: Unraveling the deadly new coronavirus VIEW

NEW YORK (AP) — What is this enemy? Seven months after the first patients were hospitalized in China battling an infection doctors had never seen...

July 14, 2020 at 10:00 pm

Profile of a killer: Unraveling the deadly new coronavirus VIEW

NEW YORK (AP) — What is this enemy? Seven months after the first patients were hospitalized in China battling an infection doctors had never seen...

July 6, 2020 at 4:07 am

Waste-watching: Sewage can help track pandemic virus trends

NEW YORK (AP) — One county in Utah beat back a spike of pandemic virus infections in the spring, and another saw its rate jump....

April 9, 2020 at 8:01 am

Tie game: Ancient bit of string shows Neanderthal handiwork

NEW YORK (AP) — It looked like a white splotch on the underside of a Neanderthal stone tool. But a microscope showed it was a...

March 24, 2020 at 10:03 pm

They already had an anxiety disorder. Now comes a pandemic. VIEW

NEW YORK (AP) — At first, Jonathon Seidl wasn't worried about the coronavirus despite his anxiety disorder. But that changed. The 33-year-old digital media strategist...

March 23, 2020 at 2:37 pm

Loss of smell, taste, might signal pandemic virus infection

NEW YORK (AP) — A loss of smell or taste might be an early sign of infection with the pandemic virus, say medical experts who...

March 18, 2020 at 9:06 am

‘Wonderchicken’ fossil reveals ancestor of today’s birds

New York (AP) — A tiny fossil skull nicknamed “Wonderchicken” is giving scientists a rare glimpse at early ancestors of today's birds. It may be...

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