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Muted protests as Italy toughens workplace Covid rules

Oct 16, 2021

Thousands of people protested at Italian ports and across towns and cities Friday against the introduction of one of the world's toughest Covid pass regimes, but fears of widespread disruption...

Delhi outbreak highlights challenge of herd immunity in the face of Delta variant

Oct 16, 2021

The Alpha variant increased in Delhi to about 40% of cases in March 2021, before it was displaced by a rapid increase in the Delta variant (B.1.617.2) in April. Applying...

Italy: Protests erupt over COVID regulations

Oct 16, 2021

The so-called "Green Pass" shows proof of vaccination, a recent negative test or of having recovered from COVID-19 in the past six months. Italy already required them to access all...

JHU partners with Morgan State on center to develop ultrathin 2D materials

Oct 16, 2021

"Johns Hopkins is pleased to be a partner with Morgan State on this initiative," Thon says. As part of the new center, researchers, and students will investigate properties of 2D...

Excavation unearths ancient Egyptian brewery

Oct 16, 2021

Thanks to his recent excavation of a brewery in the ancient Egyptian city of Abydos, the senior research scholar at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts may get his...

2,050-year-old Roman tomb offers insights on ancient concrete resilience

Oct 16, 2021

Concrete often begins to crack and crumble after a few decades of life — but curiously, that hasn’t been the case with many Roman structures. The structures are still standing,...

Delhi outbreak highlights challenge of herd immunity in face of Delta variant

Oct 16, 2021

The Alpha variant increased in Delhi to about 40% of cases in March 2021, before it was displaced by a rapid increase in the Delta variant (B.1.617.2) in April. Applying...

Harvard’s Lieberman says Americans can learn from hunter-gatherers

Oct 16, 2021

The scientist had to admit the tribal runner was on to something, and Americans seem to agree. “Training is a bizarre, modern, Western idea,” Lieberman said. They’re physically active people...

Severe Delhi outbreak highlights challenge of reaching herd immunity in face of Delta variant

Oct 16, 2021

After reaching a high of almost 9,000 cases daily in November 2020, new cases steadily declined, with very few new infections between December 2020 and March 2021. The Alpha variant...

Deep learning helps predict traffic crashes before they happen

Oct 16, 2021

To get ahead of the uncertainty inherent to crashes, scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence developed a deep learning...