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The most common way to identify coronavirus is practically useless for one large group of people

August 10th, 2020

Mike Wehner

Researchers monitoring nearly 100 men that tested positive for COVID-19 reveal that body temperature doesn’t seem to be a reliable way to detect a coronavirus infection. Of 84 men between the ages of 18 and 25, only a few had a fever, and even then, the fever only lasted for a very short while. The …

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Last year was the hottest year on record, again

January 18th, 2017

Chris Mills

The results are in: 2016 was the hottest year on record, marking the third year in a row that climate records have been broken. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA jointly declared the finding on Wednesday, using two different data sets and methodologies to reach the same conclusion: we’re kinda screwed.