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The House of Representatives voted Saturday morning to approve a bill aimed at easing the economic toll the novel coronavirus has on individuals, but the Senate won’t be able to take it up until at least Monday, because Senate Majority…
On Thursday, March 12, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced that it would offer $1.5 trillion in short-term loans to banks to “address highly unusual disruptions in Treasury financing markets associated with the coronavirus outbreak”: $500 billion on…
Blazars are a special type of active galactic nuclei (AGN) that are powered by a material – gas, dust, or stars – falling onto supermassive black holes. But unlike regular AGNs blazars generate relativistic jets comprised of ionized matter that…
An extreme exoplanet, dubbed WASP-76b, is a gas giant about twice the size of Jupiter located in the constellation of Pisces some 640 light-years from Earth. Astronomers from Geneva University in Switzerland discovered WASP-76b using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO)…
The new species, named the Oculudentavis khaungraae, was discovered in northern Myanmar, and had a preferred diet of small insects, rather than animal flesh. A team of Chinese, American and Canadian paleontologists have made an amazing discovery – the skull…
Spanish authorities previously suspended La Liga games and introduced mass lockdowns due to the coronavirus outbreak. According to official data, there are over 6,300 infected and almost 200 dead from the disease, which makes Spain the second worst-hit country in…
