Click Here to Read: Year of Wonders 1665-1667 Whilst escaping the Great Plague, Newton’s enormously productive time at Woolsthorpe is often called the Annus Mirabilis, or the “Year of Wonders’. Read about this period of intellectual endeavour, with extracts taken from the new Woolsthorpe guidebook by Patricia Fara on the National Trust of UK website.
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Click Here to Read: CDC’s failed coronavirus tests were tainted with coronavirus, feds confirm A federal investigation found CDC researchers not following protocol by Beth Mole on the Ars Technia website
April 20, 2020.
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Click Here to Read: She discovered coronaviruses decades ago—but got little recognition: Scientific pioneer June Almeida is finally being acknowledged for virology breakthroughs she made a half century ago by Sydney Combs on the National Geographic website on April 17, 2020.
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Click Here to Read: Epidemiological and clinical features of the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak in China by Yang Yang, Qingbin Lu, Mingjin Liu, Yixing Wang, Anran Zhang, Neda Jalali, Natalie Dean, Ira Longini, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Bo Xu, Xiaoai Zhang, Liping Wang, Wei Liu, Liqun Fang on the MedRxIV website on February 21, 2020.
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Click Here to Read: Bizarre life-forms found thriving in ancient rocks beneath the seafloor: Scientists broke open bits of oceanic crust and found them full of microbes—suggesting similar life could survive on other planets by Robin George Andrews on the National Geographic Website on April 2, 2020.
At East Diamante volcano (190 m, 623 ft depth), the chemosynthetic and photosynthetic communities overlap. Patches of encrusting red and green algae lie beneath filamentous bacterial mats on rock surfaces. The small white corals on the rocks are about 5 cm (2 in) long. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
