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A forecasting model by researchers at the University of Washington estimates that more than 137,000 Americans will have died from COVID-19 by early August, as dozens of states begin to relax lockdown measures. The university’s Institute for Health Metrics and…
The British government has been accused by critics of failing to properly take into account the millions of self-employed and precarious workers whilst arranging for financial support measures for men and women who can’t work thanks to the COVID-19 lockdown.…
Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency that does not have a central bank and has its transactions completed via blockchain – a public distributed ledger – has recently seen it’s value plummet, mirroring the slump of global markets amid the coronavirus pandemic. The…
In March, the official unemployment rate in the US was 4.4%, close to a 50-year low, but economists predict it could now be as high as 20%, a level unseen since the 1930s Great Depression. A further 3.2 million Americans…
Following on the heels of many investigations into whether Mars may have sustained a significant water presence, a recent study sheds light on when and for how long water existed on the red planet. A group of international scientists has…
The car was one over a dozen prospective electric vehicles shown to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko during a visit to a National Academy of Sciences test track outside Minsk on Tuesday. Belarusian engineers have built a prototype of a new…
