Christine Giordano When Apple added a “Screen Time” feature to its devices in 2018 that allowed users to monitor how much time they spend on their devices, your weekly average was likely a little...startling, to say the least. Yes, it's probably bad for your mental health, but could these blue light-emitting devices also be taking…
DETROIT – A revamped research project in Detroit will seek to find out if the sewer system can help predict coming virus outbreaks.The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) and Michigan State University (MSU) began a virus research project in November 2017 to determine if viruses can be detected in the city’s sewer collection system.…
Kate Bingham Crick A top biotech venture capitalist has been named to chair a UK government taskforce on developing and equitably distributing a vaccine. Kate Bingham, managing partner of SV Health Ventures, will lead the taskforce, helping coordinate efforts across industry, academia and government. Those efforts are now backed by 250 million (£303 million) in…
May 18, 2020 | 6:40am | Updated May 18, 2020 | 9:25am A Florida man who initially believed the coronavirus was a “fake crisis” that was “blown out of proportion” is now hospitalized along with his wife — and is sounding a cautionary note about the deadly bug. “I thought it was maybe the government…
A week after a Colorado mom of two vanished on Mother's Day, her husband took to Facebook to say he would do "whatever it takes" to bring her back."We love you, we need you, your girls need you," Barry Morphew told his wife Suzanne in the video posted Sunday."If anyone is out there that can…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…