by Matt Rozsa | Sep 22, 2023 | Pennsylvania, Salon.com
Hundreds of farmed mink are wandering through central Pennsylvania after escaping from a nearby fur farm, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Ever since, the escaped mink have been spotted everywhere in the region of Rockefeller Township: In the woods, on the road and under buildings. Local authorities originally claimed that between 6,000 and 8,000 mink escaped, but later revised their estimate....
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by Matt Rozsa | Sep 21, 2023 | Salon.com
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to drag on, with cases rising or plateauing, President Joe Biden announced that his administration will provide all Americans with a means of monitoring their infection status: On Wednesday the president declared that his administration is setting aside $600 million for the manufacturing and distribution of new at-home COVID-19 tests....
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by Matt Rozsa | Sep 19, 2023 | Salon.com
When two dams in the Libyan city of Derna failed last week, the result was a flood that has claimed more than 11,000 lives, with thousands of people still missing. Because there were ample advance warnings that the dams needed to be repaired, much blame has been placed on the shoulders of local officials like the mayor and city council....
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by Matt Rozsa | Sep 13, 2023 | Salon.com
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) notched another astronomical achievement in its figurative belt: It discovered carbon-based molecules in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, a planet that is far outside our solar system. This is particularly significant because the exoplanet in question, K2–18 b, is believed to contain an ocean....
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by Matt Rozsa | Sep 11, 2023 | Salon.com
New research in the journal Scientific Reports points to a missing ancestor that links koalas with other marsupials like kangaroos, possums and wombats. In the process, the scientists may have just cracked a major mystery related to evolution in Australia. Meet Lumakoala blackae, an ancient koala species believed to have lived throughout Australia 25 million years ago....
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