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Here’s What We Know So Far About the Long-Term Symptoms of COVID-19
We’re now all too familiar with the common symptoms of COVID-19: a fever, dry cough and fatigue. Some people also experience aches and pains, a sore throat, and loss of taste or smell. Sufferers with mild illness might expect to get better after a few weeks. But there’s mounting evidence this isn’t the case, and…
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3 Questions to Ask Yourself Next Time you See a Graph, Chart or Map
Since the days of painting on cave walls, people have been representing information through figures and images. Nowadays, data visualisation experts know that presenting information visually helps people better understand complicated data. The problem is that data visualisations can also leave you with the wrong idea – whether the images are sloppily made or intentionally…
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As if Space Wasn’t Dangerous Enough, Bacteria Become More Deadly in Microgravity
China has launched its Tianwen-1 mission to Mars. A rocket holding an orbiter, lander and rover took flight from the country’s Hainan province yesterday, with hopes to deploy the rover on Mars’s surface by early next year. Similarly, the launch of the Emirates Mars Mission on Sunday marked the Arab world’s foray into interplanetary space…
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A New Map Gives Clues About What Dark Matter Is, But Deepens Dispute About the Cosmic Expansion Rate
Dark energy is one of the greatest mysteries in science today. We know very little about it, other than it is invisible, it fills the whole universe, and it pushes galaxies away from each other. This is making our cosmos expand at an accelerated rate. But what is it? One of the simplest explanations is…