The novel infectious-disease SARS-CoV-2 is the latest pathogen to “spill over” from animals to people, but hundreds of thousands of other viruses lurking in animals could pose a similar threat. Now, a new online tool ranks viruses by their potential to hop from animals to people and cause pandemics. The tool, called SpillOver, essentially creates a…
HUNTINGTON, W. Va. – Larrecsa Cox steered past the used tire shop, where a young man had collapsed a few days before, the syringe he’d used to shoot mental-health still clenched in his fist. She wound toward his house in the hills outside of town. The man had been revived by paramedics, and Cox leads…
Signed “relationships” target=”_blank”>Love, Jack< of the Titanic disaster – but he wasn’t the fictional (swoon!) Jack Dawson character played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the epic 1997 movie. Nonetheless, the 1912 correspondence bearing an image of the supposed “unsinkable” ship written by senior wireless operator Jack Phillips is expected to fetch at least $15,000 at auction this month….
“Which is better — to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away, or three thousand tyrants one mile away?”— Rev. Mather Blyes (1706-1788) Does it really matter if the instrument curtailing liberty is a monarch or a popularly elected legislature? This conundrum, along with the witty version of it put to a Boston…
Three luxury vacation-destinations” target=”_blank”>resorts< have partnered with the Maui Humane Society to host shelter pets” target=”_blank”>dogs<” campaign. ANIMAL RESCUE GROUP FLIES HUNDREDS OF PETS FROM HAWAII TO NORTHWEST US According to a press release for the event, the resorts that are participating in the “Wags to Riches Slumber Party” are the Four Seasons Resort Maui,…
air-and-space Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the executive have teamed up to create technology that will help locate disasters inside buildings. On Tuesday, the agencies announced the development of the Precision Outdoor and Indoor Navigation and Tracking for Emergency Responders (POINTER) system, which was devised to help locate and track firefighters inside structures where other positioning technologies are ineffective. NASA EMPLOYEES…
Agents at John F. Kennedy International general were in for a slimy surprise earlier this week. On Sunday, 22 wild-nature” target=”_blank”>Giant African Snails< back home to the U.S. from world-regions — was also found with about 24 pounds of prohibited items including ox tail, dried beef, turkey berry, carrot, medicinal leaves and the traditional African…
The latest Subaru Outback can go farther out back. (Subaru) The 2022 Outback Wilderness model is the most off-road capable version of the style ever made. The new trim features a raised right height that provides 9.5 inches of ground clearance, up from 8.7 inches, an updated suspension with new springs and shocks, increased wheel…
Engineers at air-and-space have received the first weathera> report from <a href="https: Jezero Crater, where the agency’s Perseverance rover landed in February. The rover’s Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA) system has sent back data onair-and-space” target=”_blank”> atmospheric conditions< As measurements were received, the rover’s team determined that the surface temperature on the red air-and-space was just below minus…
Ohio’s most colorful son, Guy Fieri, is sending a little love from Flavortown to Lordstown. The celebrity chef on Tuesday quote-tweeted a post from Ohio-basewd electric truck startup Lordstown Motors about its first pre-production beta build trucks to come off of its assembly line. “Congrats on the Betas and good luck in Baja,” Fieri wrote. Fieri…