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Australia’s Coronavirus Testing Rates are Some of the Best in the World
Data on COVID-19 testing rates per thousand people show that Australia is doing extremely well compared to many other countries. This gives us a reasonable level of confidence that we are detecting most of the COVID-19 cases across the country. The prospects of elimination remain elusive but even with the current outbreak in Victoria, Australia…
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Guide to the Classics: The War of the Worlds
Spoiler alert: this story details how The War of the Worlds ends. The latest screen adaption of H. G. Wells’ 1898 modern masterwork The War of the Worlds will hit our screens this week. Continuously in print since its first publication, the book is a literary gift that keeps on giving for producers and screenwriters.…
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Looks Like Huawei’s Planning a Foldable Phone Called the Mate V
We’ve already heard today that the upcoming successor to the Samsung Galaxy Fold will likely be called the Galaxy Z Fold 2 (the Z part is load-bearing, clearly), and now we have another lead on a potential future foldy phone and its name. Huawei has trademarked the name Huawei Mate V, which could well be the follow-up…
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Marine Life Found in Ancient Antarctica Ice Helps Solve a Carbon Dioxide Puzzle From the Ice Age
Evidence of minute amounts of marine life in an ancient Antarctic ice sheet helps explain a longstanding puzzle of why rising carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels stalled for hundreds of years as Earth warmed from the last ice age. Our study shows there was an explosion in productivity of marine life at the surface of the…