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12 MAR 2020 The race is on to identify an effective vaccine for the COVID-19 virus. Once discovered, the next challenge will be manufacturing and distributing it around the world. My research group has developed a novel method to stabilize live viruses and other biological medicines in a rapidly dissolving film that …

11 MAR 2020 Time, as far as we know, moves only in one direction. But in 2018, researchers found events in some gamma-ray burst pulses that seemed to repeat themselves as though they were going backwards in time. Now, recent research suggests a potential answer for what might be causing this time …

10 MAR 2020  In a research note published Thursday, an economist at leading European insurer Allianz SE predicted that the impact of the novel coronavirus on global commerce will be greater than that from the U.S.-China trade war. “We estimate that losses of trade in goods and services could amount …

09 MAR 2020  Swiss investment bank UBS has committed to no longer providing finance for new offshore oil projects in the Arctic, greenfield thermal coal mines or greenfield oil sands projects. The bank’s new standards also include enhanced due diligence for transactions related to LNG and ultra-deepwater drilling. UBS reduced …

08 Mar 2020 Cargo shipments passing through the Northern Sea Route, Russia’s remote Arctic sea artery, topped 30 million tons during the past year, officials have said, marking a major uptick in fossil fuel deliveries from one of the world’s most vulnerable environments. The shipping upswing, which President Vladimir Putin …

9 MAR 2020 For the first time, doctors have attempted to cure blindness by gene-hacking a patient with CRISPR technology. A team from Oregon Health & Science Institute injected three droplets of fluid that delivered the CRISPR DNA fragments directly into a patient’s eyeball, The Associated Press reports, in hopes that it will reverse …