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Apparently great news, an Argentine team of scientifics from Conicet developed a portable tool that detects coronavirus in under an hour for just 2$USD per use.

So this has been doing the rounds again recently

I know Atlanta is the busiest, it used to be between us and Chicago (Home of American Airlines). I'm sure the traffic numbers for Beijing are plummeting at the moment.

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Becoming a hermit seems a bit drastic

Not as good as Willian or Barcelona would have signed him instead

That would explain why I'm mostly talking to myself here

'Rosalind Franklin': Europe's Mars rover heads for fit checks Europe's Mars rover, "Rosalind Franklin", is on the move again. The robot has just completed environmental testing at the Airbus factory in Toulouse, France, and is now going east to another aerospace facility run by Thales Alenia Space. It's on the French Riviera, in Cannes, that the vehicle will join the hardware that will carry it to the Red Planet and put it safely on the surface. Once this integration is complete, the rover can then go for launch. Rosalind Franklin is due to leave Earth in July or August this year on a Proton rocket, arriving at Mars in March 2021. The six-wheeled robot is equipped with scientific instruments designed to look for signs of life. The project is a joint venture of the European Space Agency (Esa) and its Russian counterpart, Roscosmos. FULL REPORT

This is heartbreaking. VR helps a mother get some closure after losing her young daughter to an illness.

OK so the Chinese numbers for today are starting to come in now (being very late again) and it seems the arrival of WHO team to China and their disagreement about proper reporting of the cases has stirred things quite a bit there. I'll try to do a proper update later when all provinces report their numbers but the new numbers just in Hubei province are huge and very different from what the Chinese have been reporting up until now (the report now includes clinically confirmed cases while lab confirmed cases not showing any clinical symptoms are not included). So in the last 24 hours there have reportedly been 14840 new cases and 242 new deaths - previously daily reported cases tended to be around 2000-3000 with around 70-100 deaths; this latest update would suggest that the number of daily cases might have increased sevenfold (!!!) while the number of daily deaths is at least 2.5 times higher than the average of previous days. Graphs by jodi.graphics Also Vietnam has now put an entire village (around 10000 inhabitants) under quarantine.

This picture of two mice brawling on the London Underground won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year award... funny stuff

Man JBL was a great champion. I never seethed so hard before in my life, how he'd always get away with it. Granted, I was 10 but regardless he always boiled my shit and that is what a heel is supposed to do. I tuned in to watch him lose the title.

She’s still super tiny, but she’s grown so much

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