HAVANA — The islands of the Caribbean used to be home to a huge array of unusual animals, including a group of rodents that weighed up to 440 pounds. Where these super-sized rodents came from and how they evolved into such hefty animals has finally been discovered, showing how they crossed the sea from South […]
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NOTHING TO CLAM UP ABOUT! Scientists Discover Species of Ancient ‘Clam-Shrimp’ On St. Thomas Golf Course
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Water hazards are something to watch out for on a golf course. But in academics, a water hazard is a place to be explored, not avoided. Because in academia, the whole world is your oyster. So it is only fitting that local scholars made a breakthough discovery of a new species of […]
The Superspreaders Of COVID-19 Will Soon Allow India To Eclipse The U.S. In Coronavirus Infections
NEW DELHI — In the bleak ranking of worst COVID-19 outbreaks, the United States, with 7.2 million infections, is likely to be eclipsed only by India, which has 1 million fewer cases but is catching up fast. Yet parts of India have led the world in one aspect of the pandemic response: contact tracing — the labor-intensive, […]