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Ultraviolet light can kill microscopic creatures like bacteria and viruses by destroying the molecular bonds in their genetic material. But UV light also damages human DNA, causing eye and skin damage and increasing our risk of cancer. It turns out, though, that there’s a loophole: a specific wavelength of UV light that’s safe for people…

(CNN)Eva Sileo, a senior at the University of Iowa, was surprised to learn that her school would not be testing students as they returned to campus at the start of the semester. “I think it is profo…

Sept. 18, 2020Updated 10:10 a.m. ET The New York Times / Siena College poll Democrats hold a lead over Republican incumbents in three key Senate races. Dem. Rep. MarginArizona Ariz. (n=653) 50% Mark Kelly 42% Martha McSally + 8 Dem. 7% undecided Maine Maine (663) 49% Sara Gideon 44% Susan Collins + 5 Dem. 6%…

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Want a reason to maintain your PlayStation Plus subscription? How about more than a dozen of the best titles released during the PS4 generation? Today, Sony announced that PS5 owners with an active PS Plus membership will have immediate access to something called the PlayStation Plus Collection. It’s a small but impressive library that contains…

As promised, Apple just dropped iOS 14. It’s now available on iPhone 6s and above, and it brings a whole bunch of new features. Those include home screen widgets, an App Library, Apple Clips, picture-in-picture mode and pretty significant changes to Siri and Messages.Along with iOS 14, Apple released iPadOS 14. From the public beta,…

The US Library of Congress has released an AI tool that lets you search through 16 million historical newspaper pages for images that help explain the stories of the past. The Newspaper Navigator shows how seminal events and characters, such as wars and presidents, have been depicted in the press. Jim Casey, an assistant professor of African American…

relocating to a second home or the suburbs, or moving around for the fun of it, or because your previous housing fell through.So amid remote work, Zoom classes and general pandemic chaos, voting — and the sometimes confusing rules surrounding it — may be the last thing on your mind.With Nov. 3 just around the…

(Reuters) – Some U.S. college students are doing the once-improbable: blowing the whistle on classmates who break rules aimed at stemming the spread of the coronavirus.A “COVID-19 Supply Tent” is seen on Move In Day 2020 – North and West Campus, at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York in this undated handout photo. Jason Koski/Cornell University/Handout…

Today, Reuters will host a Twitter chat to discuss strategies to help protect mental health during the coronavirus pandemic, featuring mental health experts from the American Psychiatric Association, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, University of Michigan School of Public Health, University of Michigan Medicine, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Interdisciplinary Center…