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On Tennyson Street in Denver, mom-and-pop shops are dying amid Covid-19

Nov 29, 2020

Nearly every business on Tennyson Street, in a gentrifying neighborhood about 15 minutes from downtown Denver, was hit hard by the pandemic. People walk by the Wana Art House on...

US is 'rounding the corner into a calamity,' expert says, with Covid-19 deaths projected to double soon

Nov 28, 2020

And daily Covid-19 deaths in the US have been heading up. Based on the current Covid-19 numbers in the US, the country is far from rounding the corner, she said....

Lockdown-weary Americans begin pandemic-changed holiday season

Nov 28, 2020

One day after the nation celebrated a muted Thanksgiving, malls and retailers imposing strict COVID-19 rules saw fewer Americans in stores for the traditional Black Friday start of the holiday...

Journeys of discovery: Jocelyn Bell Burnell and pulsars

Nov 28, 2020

In the space of two months, you discovered the first four pulsars; 3,000 are known today. Pulsars are visible because they swing a beam of radiowaves around the sky, a...

McGill congratulates Order of Canada honorees

Nov 28, 2020

NewsAmong the new appointments announced by Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada, to the Order of Canada are McGillians Yves Beauchamp, Vice Principal, Administration and...

Iran's nuclear program chief Mohsen Fakhrizadeh assassinated near Tehran

Nov 27, 2020

The semi-official Fars News Agency, affiliated with Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, stated that Fakhrizadeh was injured in the attempted assassination and later died in the hospital. "News sources say a...

Sri Sarma wins inauguaral Pitch It On! competition

Nov 27, 2020

Sridevi V. Sarma, an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, won $10,000 in Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures' Pitch It On! Sarma received the most votes from the 150...

Cross-disciplinary team will design, develop devices to better treat spinal cord injuries

Nov 27, 2020

The results could benefit thousands of U.S. service members and civilians who sustain spinal cord injuries every year. Joshua Doloff, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and Nitish Thakor, professor of...

Professor Emeritus Kari Alitalo receives honorary title of Academician of Science

Nov 27, 2020

Kari Alitalo has been Director of the Molecular and Cancer Biology Research Programme at the University of Helsinki since 1999. He was Professor of Medical Biochemistry at the University of...

Aalto-Helsinki student team awarded gold medal in iGEM 2020 Giant Jamboree

Nov 27, 2020

iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) is an annually held synthetic biology competition organized by the non-profit iGEM Foundation. Aalto-Helsinki student team won a gold medal in this year’s iGEM 2020...