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Aylin Woodward
Marine scientists spotted a 'real-life' SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star near an underwater mountain in the Atlantic
A NOAA expedition spotted marine animals living a mile under the Atlantic waves. Two of those creatures resembled their cartoon counterparts.
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Russia is set to dock a long-awaited new module to the space station on Thursday
The Nauka module is 14 years late and had technical issues once it finally launched. But Russia is finally ready to dock it to the space station.
Azmi Haroun
The CDC quietly changed its guidance to say even vaccinated people should get tested if they've been exposed to COVID-19
The CDC is now urging vaccinated people who've been around someone with COVID-19 to "get tested 3-5 days after," even if they don't develop symptoms.
Aylin Woodward
A YouTuber bet a physicist $10,000 that a wind-powered vehicle could travel twice as fast as the wind itself - and won
A UCLA physics professor bet a popular science YouTuber $10,000 that one of his videos promoted fallacious physics. The YouTuber won.
Sinéad Baker,Thomas Colson
Fully vaccinated travelers from the US and the EU will soon be able to enter England without quarantine
Currently, nonresidents traveling from "amber list" countries must quarantine and take coronavirus tests, even if they are fully vaccinated.
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Boeing will once again try to fly its spaceship to the space station for NASA on Friday, after failing its first attempt
Last time the Starliner spacecraft tried to fly to the International Space Station, software issues came up. Now Boeing is ready to try again.
Azmi Haroun
Mayor Garcetti announces that Los Angeles will require city employees to show proof of vaccination or test weekly
The press release accompanying the announcement added that in the last month, in Los Angeles, COVID-19 cases have soared 20-fold.
Aria Bendix
CDC says fully vaccinated people spread the Delta variant and should wear masks: 'This new science is worrisome'
The Delta variant makes it easier for vaccinated people to transmit the virus, CDC director Rochelle Walensky said.
Hilary Brueck
CDC: Everyone should mask up indoors - whether they're fully vaccinated or not - as the Delta variant sweeps the US
The CDC said that where coronavirus transmission is high, vaccinated people should wear masks indoors in public, especially at K-12 schools.
Hilary Brueck
CDC: Color-coded map reveals where Americans need to wear masks again, and where you can go maskless, outside of schools
Vaccinated people can still spread the Delta variant, which is one of the biggest reasons why masks are being recommended indoors again.
Natalie Musumeci
CDC: The coronavirus could be 'just a few mutations' away from evading vaccines
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said a big concern is that the next variant that might emerge could make vaccines less effective.
Aria Bendix
The CDC now recommends masks for vaccinated people - but at least 6 major cities had already told residents to mask up again
Los Angeles and St. Louis both require vaccinated people to wear masks indoors. New Orleans, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Seattle recommend it.
Hilary Brueck
The CDC is expected to recommend masks for vaccinated people in some indoor settings as COVID-19 cases soar
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky is expected to announce the change on Tuesday afternoon.
Mia Jankowicz
A woman held a vaccine clinic at her son's memorial. He died with COVID-19 after refusing to get the shot.
Bereaved Lousiana mother Betty Antoine offered vaccines to people at her son's memorial service, after he died having refused the COVID-19 shot.
Sinéad Baker
The US could see daily COVID-19 cases quadruple next month as vaccinations hit a wall, former CDC director says
Dr. Tom Frieden warned the US could see around 200,000 new cases a day in the next four to six weeks.
Mia Jankowicz
A vaccine-skeptic dad died from COVID-19, realizing too late that he should have got the shot, his doctor said
34-year-old Matthew Keenan said he wished he could 'turn back time' and get the shot after he got seriously ill, his doctor said.
Aria Bendix
UK coronavirus cases have been dropping dramatically over the past week. Vaccines aren't the only reason.
Disease experts think a combination of warm weather and fewer public gatherings may have helped slow the virus' spread.
Azmi Haroun
The vaccine mandate 'tipping point': These entities are requiring vaccines as the Delta variant spreads
As of Sunday, the CDC said 69% of American adults had received at least one shot, falling short of the Biden's goal of hitting 70% before July 4.
Aylin Woodward
A Harvard-led team is launching a new project to search for physical evidence of aliens and their technology
Astrophysicist Avi Loeb is leading the Galileo Project, a program that will search for signs of extraterrestrial life and alien technology.
Mia Jankowicz
Arkansas doctor describes the 'regret and remorse' from dying COVID-19 patients who didn't get vaccinated
Dr Michael Bolding, working in Fayetteville, Arkansas, described seeing the brunt of the coronavirus surge among the state's unvaccainted.
Kelsey Vlamis
A woman in Alabama whose 28-year-old son died of COVID-19 regrets not getting vaccinated and said his last words were 'this is not a hoax, this is real'
"It took watching my son die and me suffering the effects of covid for us to realize we need the vaccine," Christy Carpenter told The Washington Post.
Bethany Dawson
Alabama doctor describes how sick COVID patients 'beg' for the vaccine but she can only hold their hand and tell them it is too late
Doctors are now being trolled online after sharing stories of unvaccinated people dying from COVID-19.
Kate Duffy
A Virgin Galactic ticket holder who met Blue Origin passenger Wally Funk at parties said the 82-year-old had 'the energy of 6,000 labradors'
Caroline Freeland, who bought a Virgin Galactic space ticket, said she met 82-year-old Wally Funk at astronaut parties and talks.
Aria Bendix
NASA's Mars helicopter nailed its 10th flight - double what engineers had hoped Ingenuity would do
Flight 10 is a significant milestone: Ingenuity has now flown twice as many times as NASA engineers originally planned.
Connor Perrett
COVID-19 cases in the US near 50,000 a day - the highest since May as CDC reportedly considers stricter mask rules
There were over 81,000 new COVID-19 cases reported Friday as the Delta variant spreads in the US. It was the highest daily number since February, according to NYT data.
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